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I'm willing to bet money that for every company that deletes emails older than some age also deletes Slack messages, and deletes then sooner. I speak as someon
by legerdemain 6y ago
I'm willing to bet money that for every company that deletes emails older than some age also deletes Slack messages, and deletes then sooner.
I speak as someone who worked for a company where email got archived and then deleted after 6 months, and currently works at a company where everyone only uses Slack, and Slack is purged after 30 days.
- flerchin 6y agoOur email has a 90 day retention window, and Slack is permanent. We're the largest in our industry.
- legerdemain 6y agoCool! Where should I send bet money?
- flerchin 6y agoMozilla or EFF, your choice. :-D
- legerdemain 6y agoExcellent, $25 sent to EFF!
- grok22 6y agoIsn't that just a company policy? At some-point, the lawyers will get clued-in and require that even on Slack and other company-wide chat there be a limited retention window!
- fencepost 6y agoDo the people who wrote the email policy know that Slack is permanent? That sounds like the kind of thing that could easily be not-understood by legal.
- KirillPanov 6y agoYeah this policy mismatch definitely seems like a "nobody in legal has noticed yet". They're gonna notice real quick the next time they get sued by somebody clueful enough to subpoena that goldmine.
- KirillPanov 6y agoHave your Slack chats been subpoenaed yet? If not, you are very lucky that you are being sued by people with incompetent attorneys.
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