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Why do you think companies in the US have instituted a "delete emails after 6 months/1 year" policy ?
by candiodari 7y ago
Why do you think companies in the US have instituted a "delete emails after 6 months/1 year" policy ?
- jdashg 7y agoIt's wild that this continual destruction of evidence is not only tolerated but SOP. It's just so convenient! Imagine if commit messages disappeared after 6mo!
- jonstewart 7y agoWell, the alternative is for every last written thing at a company--jokes, gripes, mistakes--to be scrutinized and taken out of context in court by an opposing side's legal team.
- jrockway 7y agoThere is probably a desire to make commit messages go away after 6 months. I am guessing that the lawyers aren't putting much pressure on engineering teams because nobody has thought to "discover" commit messages in a major case yet (whereas email is routine).
- goatinaboat 7y agoIt's wild that this continual destruction of evidence is not only tolerated but SOP. I bet it’s still on the backup tapes. So when slapped with a court order it will be an order of magnitude more expensive for them to disclose.
- candiodari 7y agoYou destroy the encryption keys to those backups, not the data itself. This is a problem that has long been solved.