Transparency Report

Every quarter, Looker VPN Inc. publishes a signed count of the legal demands we received and the user data we handed over. We publish it even when every number is zero — a quarter with nothing to report is still worth reporting.

What each report counts

• Subpoenas, search warrants, and court orders received
• Law-enforcement and government requests received, by country
• DMCA and copyright notices received
• Requests to hand over private keys, decrypt traffic, or weaken our systems
• Accounts affected by any of the above
• Requests where we actually provided data — and what was provided

The last line is the one that matters. We expect it to read: we received requests and provided nothing, because there was nothing to provide. We don't log traffic, connection times, bandwidth, or DNS queries, and the account number isn't linked to payment information — so a demand for user data reaches an empty drawer.

What this report cannot tell you

A transparency report cannot signal a gagged order. If we were served a National Security Letter or a FISA order that forbids us from disclosing it, this report would not say so, and neither would we. That is the limit of the mechanism, and we would rather state it than imply coverage we don't have.

A warrant canary is the usual attempt to cover that gap, and we have decided not to run one. Its failure mode is asymmetric: a missed update is indistinguishable from a triggered one, so an ordinary administrative slip — a holiday, a launch week — reads as a compromise and cannot be walked back without destroying the mechanism. The legal theory is also untested; no US court has validated a canary. A lapsed canary is worse than never starting one, so we are not starting one. Mullvad and NordVPN reached the same conclusion; IVPN and Proton run one.

How you'll verify it

Each report will be PGP cleartext-signed so you can verify it against our published signing key, and every past report stays on this page. True to our brand: something you can verify, not just trust.

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