Lantern Transparency Report

The table below shows the number of legally binding requests received from government or law enforcement agencies. Under American law, information requests from foreign courts or law enforcement are subject to a "dual criminality" provision, meaning that the request is upheld by an American court only if the same crime is punishable by at least a one-year prison sentence under American law, had it taken place in the United States. Should we receive a valid legal order from an American Court, it is important to note that Lantern is technically unable to associate a Lantern account with the real identity of user and Lantern is technically unable to associate a Lantern IP address and corresponding time stamp with a single user IP address or a single Lantern user.

There's a limited set of circumstances where Lantern may be able to confirm that an individual has an account. For example, if Lantern is presented with an email address, we may be required to confirm whether or not an account with that email address exists. We accept any email address during registration because the email address is not verified.

However, confirming that an account exists does not result in any usage information being disclosed, because:

Lantern servers do not and will never log:

  • Linking Lantern account to real identity (such as purchase information)
  • Connection logs (time stamps of connection of IP addresses from client to Lantern server)
  • Browsing history
  • Traffic destination or metadata
  • DNS queries

Government Demands for User Data

January - June 2022

As of June 30, 2022,

A. Lantern has not received any National Security Letters or FISA court orders, and we have not been subject to any gag order(s) by a FISA court, or any other similar court(s) of any government.

B. No warrants have ever been served to Lantern or Lantern employees.

C. No searches or seizures of any kind have ever been performed on Lantern assets.

D. Lantern has no direct or indirect knowledge of any backdoors or potential backdoors in our servers or network, and Lantern has not received any requests to implement a backdoor.

E. Lantern has not received a court order requiring logging of any user activities. F. Lantern has never disclosed any user communications to any government.

G. Lantern has never disclosed any user identity to any government.

Special note should be taken if these messages ever cease being updated, or are removed from this page. Lantern's policy is to notify users of requests for their information prior to disclosure including providing users with a copy of the request, and publicly publish the requests and our replies unless we are prohibited by law from doing so or if there is danger of death or serious physical injury. As soon as legally permitted to do so, we will notify our users of requests for their information and publish the requests and our replies.

You can view the published requests and our replies during this reporting period below: We received a mutual legal assistance treaty request from France for three accounts transmitted by the U.S. Department of Justice, Northern District of California. No information has been disclosed. We have not confirmed whether the users have accounts. Please read the full request with the gag order, our response, the motion to unseal and the order granting motion to unseal.

Legal ProcessesReceivedData ProducedNo Data ProducedConfirmed an individual has an account
United States
Court order0000
Subpoena0000
Warrant0000
National Security Letters0000
FISA court order0000
Non-United States
France1010
Other0000

July - December 2021

As of December 31, 2021,

A. Lantern has not received any National Security Letters or FISA court orders, and we have not been subject to any gag order(s) by a FISA court, or any other similar court(s) of any government.

B. No warrants have ever been served to Lantern or Lantern employees.

C. No searches or seizures of any kind have ever been performed on Lantern assets.

D. Lantern has no direct or indirect knowledge of any backdoors, or potential backdoors in our servers or network and Lantern has not received any requests to implement a backdoor.

E. Lantern has not received a court order requiring logging of any user activities. F. Lantern has never disclosed any user communications to any government.

G. Lantern has never disclosed any user identity to any government.

Special note should be taken if these messages ever cease being updated, or are removed from this page. Lantern's policy is to notify users of requests for their information prior to disclosure including providing users with a copy of the request, and publicly publish the requests and our replies unless we are prohibited by law from doing so or if there is danger of death or serious physical injury. As soon as legally permitted to do so, we will notify our users of requests for their information and publish the requests and our replies.

You can view the published requests and our replies during this reporting period below: No requests during this reporting period.

Legal ProcessesReceivedData ProducedNo Data ProducedConfirmed an individual has an account
United States
Court order0000
Subpoena0000
Warrant0000
National Security Letters0000
FISA court order0000
Non-United States
Other0000

January - June 2021

As of June 30, 2021,

A. Lantern has not received any National Security Letters or FISA court orders, and we have not been subject to any gag order(s) by a FISA court, or any other similar court(s) of any government.

B. No warrants have ever been served to Lantern or Lantern employees.

C. No searches or seizures of any kind have ever been performed on Lantern assets.

D. Lantern has no direct or indirect knowledge of any backdoors, or potential backdoors in our servers or network and Lantern has not received any requests to implement a backdoor.

E. Lantern has not received a court order requiring logging of any user activities. F. Lantern has never disclosed any user communications to any government.

G. Lantern has never disclosed any user identity to any government.

Special note should be taken if these messages ever cease being updated, or are removed from this page. Lantern's policy is to notify users of requests for their information prior to disclosure including providing users with a copy of the request, and publicly publish the requests and our replies unless we are prohibited by law from doing so or if there is danger of death or serious physical injury. As soon as legally permitted to do so, we will notify our users of requests for their information and publish the requests and our replies.

You can view the published requests and our replies during this reporting period below: We received an unofficial inquiry from the Office of International Affairs, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice regarding a potential preservation order. Because the U.S. Department of Justice Inc never officially sent us the preservation order, no information was preserved or produced. You can view the full request and our response.

July - December 2020

As of December 31, 2020,

A. Lantern has not received any National Security Letters or FISA court orders, and we have not been subject to any gag order(s) by a FISA court, or any other similar court(s) of any government.

B. No warrants have ever been served to Lantern or Lantern employees.

C. No searches or seizures of any kind have ever been performed on Lantern assets.

D. Lantern has no direct or indirect knowledge of any backdoors, or potential backdoors in our servers or network and Lantern has not received any requests to implement a backdoor.

E. Lantern has not received a court order requiring logging of any user activities. F. Lantern has never disclosed any user communications to any government.

G. Lantern has never disclosed any user identity to any government.

Special note should be taken if these messages ever cease being updated, or are removed from this page. Lantern's policy is to notify users of requests for their information prior to disclosure including providing users with a copy of the request, and publicly publish the requests and our replies unless we are prohibited by law from doing so or if there is danger of death or serious physical injury. As soon as legally permitted to do so, we will notify our users of requests for their information and publish the requests and our replies.

You can view the published requests and our replies during this reporting period below: We received one grand jury subpoena from the U.S Department of Justice requesting information regarding one proxy IP address. No information has been disclosed. We have not confirmed whether theuser has an account. Please read the grand jury subpoena, the gag order and our response.

We received one unofficial discovery request from Siemens Industry Software Inc. Because Siemens Industry Software Inc never officially filed the subpoena, we ignored the request and no information was produced. You can view the full request here.

Legal ProcessesReceivedData ProducedNo Data ProducedConfirmed an individual has an account
United States
Court order0000
Subpoena1010
Warrant0000
National Security Letters0000
FISA court order0000
Non-United States
Other0000

January - June 2020

As of June 30, 2020,

A. Lantern has not received any National Security Letters or FISA court orders, and we have not been subject to any gag order(s) by a FISA court, or any other similar court(s) of any government.

B. No warrants have ever been served to Lantern or Lantern employees.

C. No searches or seizures of any kind have ever been performed on Lantern assets.

D. Lantern has no direct or indirect knowledge of any backdoors, or potential backdoors in our servers or network and Lantern has not received any requests to implement a backdoor.

E. Lantern has not received a court order requiring logging of any user activities. F. Lantern has never disclosed any user communications to any government.

G. Lantern has never disclosed any user identity to any government.

Special note should be taken if these messages ever cease being updated, or are removed from this page. Lantern's policy is to notify users of requests for their information prior to disclosure including providing users with a copy of the request, and publicly publish the requests and our replies unless we are prohibited by law from doing so or if there is danger of death or serious physical injury. As soon as legally permitted to do so, we will notify our users of requests for their information and publish the requests and our replies.

You can view the published requests and our replies during this reporting period below: No requests during this reporting period.

Legal ProcessesReceivedData ProducedNo Data ProducedConfirmed an individual has an account
United States
Court order0000
Subpoena0000
Warrant0000
National Security Letters0000
FISA court order0000
Non-United States
Other0000

2014 - 2019

As of December 31, 2019,

A. Lantern has not received any National Security Letters or FISA court orders, and we have not been subject to any gag order(s) by a FISA court, or any other similar court(s) of any government.

B. No warrants have ever been served to Lantern or Lantern employees.

C. No searches or seizures of any kind have ever been performed on Lantern assets.

D. Lantern has no direct or indirect knowledge of any backdoors, or potential backdoors inour servers or network and Lantern has not received any requests to implement a backdoor.

E. Lantern has not received a court order requiring logging of any user activities. F. Lantern has never disclosed any user communications to any government.

G. Lantern has never disclosed any user identity to any government.

Special note should be taken if these messages ever cease being updated, or are removed from this page. Lantern's policy is to notify users of requests for their information prior to disclosure including providing users with a copy of the request, and publicly publish the requests and our replies unless we are prohibited by law from doing so or if there is danger of death or serious physical injury. As soon as legally permitted to do so, we will notify our users of requests for their information and publish the requests and our replies.

You can view the published requests and our replies during this reporting period below:

No requests during this reporting period.

Legal ProcessesReceivedData ProducedNo Data ProducedConfirmed an individual has an account
United States
Court order0000
Subpoena0000
Warrant0000
National Security Letters0000
FISA court order0000
Non-United States
Other0000