Just tell DOJ the guy in charge of server backup and retention didn’t know what they were doing. Worked for Hillary.
You shouldn’t use deleted chats as evidence. That is a precedent that should not be a allowed to stand. Its up there with Tor users automatically being criminals.
I’m am sure they can find some evidence even if they have to fall back to interviews of employees.
One day people will read my posts before commenting. I hope…
What post? You just dumped a link on lemmy with a title attached to it.
Not even a small summary or anything, something that I would consider the bare minimum for a post.
I’m here to share and discuss.
Pfft. Then you’ll be complaining about all the dummies that didn’t even understand your progressively more simple prose as you try to explain semi-complex concepts to people with no shared educational background
According to the DOJ, Google destroyed potentially hundreds of thousands of chat sessions not just during their investigation but also during litigation. Google only stopped the practice after the DOJ discovered the policy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampering_with_evidence#Spoliation
However, in U.S. federal courts, updates to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in 2015 have resulted in significant decline in spoliation sanctions.
Oof. Five bucks says this change was driven by concerted megacorp lobbying efforts.
Actively destroying evidence should mean automatic ondertal of the worst.
Until you get arrested for using encryption
Using encryption has essentially nothing in common with deleting records while under investigation.
If they deleted records that’s different. What it sounds like is that they just turned off logging when discussing sensitive topics. That isn’t a great practice in this case but at the same time that shouldn’t automatically make them guilty.
Google was accused of enacting a policy instructing employees to turn chat history off by default when discussing sensitive topics
According to the DOJ, Google destroyed potentially hundreds of thousands of chat sessions not just during their investigation but also during litigation. Google only stopped the practice after the DOJ discovered the policy. DOJ’s attorney Kenneth Dintzer told Mehta Friday that the DOJ believed the court should "conclude that communicating with history off shows anti-competitive intent to hide information because they knew they were violating antitrust law.
It’s perfectly reasonable to see this practice of avoiding the creation of evidence of their wrongdoing as evidence of wrongdoing, which is 100% what it is.
It’s not the same as a person using TOR, it’s a company hiding evidence.
You have zero understanding about corpoorate governence and record detection laws. You should get educated instead of providing uneducated opinions lol
Even the judge hates that Google keeps shutting down projects unexpectedly
Put them in the graveyard
Don’t Be Evil!^TM
$10 says they’re backed up somewhere.
A company like Google has redundant backups in their veins.
Just sayin.
Well, until legal gets involved.
