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> Who gets to decide what is "potential evidence"? Ultimately, the courts do, but if something is possibly related you’re supposed to preserve it. > turning t
by jwalton 3y ago
> Who gets to decide what is "potential evidence"?
Ultimately, the courts do, but if something is possibly related you’re supposed to preserve it.
> turning the chat history off doesn't really destroy anything
IANAL but courts tend to view all written conversions the same way. Turning off chat history is viewed the same as throwing away all the mail you receive, and both are very much frowned upon when the court has specifically asked you not to. These rules are set through longstanding precedent.
- vjk800 3y agoWhat is the chat happens in a software that didn't have chat history feature in the first place? I mean it's Google, surely they could cook up a separate internal chat tool just for this purpose. And if the chat history didn't exist in the first place, can the court order the company to switch to a chat software that has it? If not, how is it that different from toggling chat history on/off in a single software?
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