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.
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.
$10 says they’re backed up somewhere.
A company like Google has redundant backups in their veins.
Just sayin.
Well, until legal gets involved.
Don’t Be Evil!^TM
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.
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.
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
Just tell DOJ the guy in charge of server backup and retention didn’t know what they were doing. Worked for Hillary.
