> if the records have already been deleted, or indeed are automatically deleted after the request is made, no crime is committed This isn’t true under US law.

> if the records have already been deleted, or indeed are automatically deleted after the request is made, no crime is committed This isn’t true under US law. No matter where you conduct your work, if you destroy a record without capturing it as required by your records schedule, you have violated the law, whether there is a FOIA request or not. It is your responsibility to migrate record material to an appropriate location. If you conduct official business on any of these platforms with auto-destruct that seems suspect to me and cause for some sort of censure, just like a stock trading floor doing this would be in breach of regulation.