Even the judge hates that Google keeps shutting down projects unexpectedly
Put them in the graveyard
“it’s shocking they didn’t make a record of their illegal behaviors”
It is shocking because they did it after the investigation had started, which is monumentally stupid.
You can destroy any records you want at any time, unless there’s an investigation underway or you have good reason to believe one will be starting. At that point, you’re destroying evidence.
The crazy part is the implication that the evidence destroyed was probably more damning than having a judge and jury assume anything reasonably suggested to have been implicated by those chats as true.
I wager they’re so used to getting away with shit that destroying evidence probably says less about the crimes committed and more about the piss-poor justice system.
*sigh* After reading some of the other comments, I have to agree. I’m not sure whether to be relieved or even more discouraged. It’s a dreadfully boring dystopia.
Must be the evidence was more damning than the SCT of destroying evidence
No, it’s shocking that the destroyed evidence after being explicitly instructed not to.
Make destroying evidence a worse offense than the crime (or as a de facto admission of guilt) and sanction them accordingly.
It is for us plebs, look up adverse inference
$10 says they’re backed up somewhere.
A company like Google has redundant backups in their veins.
Just sayin.
Well, until legal gets involved.
Dawg google is above the law
They make your phone, most likely
Don’t Be Evil!^TM
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.
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 inferral of the worst.
Only if you are able to imagine the worst.
Dreadfully true
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.
One day people will read my posts before commenting. I hope…
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
You have zero understanding about corpoorate governence and record detection laws. You should get educated instead of providing uneducated opinions lol
