This is not limited to Google. It’s a tactic used to frustrate the overly excitable Plaintiff bar who enjoys asking for overbroad discovery of records. It has b

This is not limited to Google. It’s a tactic used to frustrate the overly excitable Plaintiff bar who enjoys asking for overbroad discovery of records. It has been so pervasive that companies have designed record retention policies more limited than even they want because it cost them so much to go preserve, collect, process, review, and produce in litigation.