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Phone calls also aren't direct p2p and can be trivially recorded, so that's irrelevant. Google Chat does not retain messages when history is off, according to t

Phone calls also aren't direct p2p and can be trivially recorded, so that's irrelevant. Google Chat does not retain messages when history is off, according to their own documentation: https://support.google.com/vault/answer/7657597?hl=en#zippy=%2Cwhat-data-can-be-retained https://support.google.com/vault/answer/7657597?hl=en#zippy=... "Not covered: history off" If it turns out their documentation is wrong and off-the-record chats aren't actually off the record then yes, you will be correct. But where is the evidence that it's the case? Google Apps is used by hundreds of thousands of companies and it has a sophisticated infrastructure for implementing retention limits and legal holds. Why are people here assuming that all that work has been done by incompetents?

kevingadd 4y ago
I don't understand why you're comparing to phone calls here when the post you're replying to starts with "Google Chat logs aren't direct p2p, they are most definitely logged records. Otherwise the messages wouldn't still be there when you log out and back in." which is simply not true for voice calls, which are synchronous. Chats are asynchronous and store history in the client so you can scroll back (even if history is eventually purged client side on a timer or when you exit), and if chat history is enabled on the server, they store it there too. A better point of comparison would be voicemails, but I don't think we're talking about those.