> How would that even work? Hypothetically speaking, it could require at least retaining and backing up the text of every chat and e-mail produced. For a FAN

> How would that even work? Hypothetically speaking, it could require at least retaining and backing up the text of every chat and e-mail produced. For a FANG company, a year of chats or emails should trivially fit on a consumer-grade hard-drive. This isn't a technically difficult problem. No, that doesn't capture every bit of communication in a company, but it's a very low bar that the government ought to require. It also raises the difficulty bar for hiding bad behaviour. If keeping bad behaviour off the record requires in-person meetings, and synchronous phone calls, it makes the people engaging in it dramatically less efficient.