> Does deleting stuff from the memory count as destroying evidence? Maybe? The line is more blurry here, but there are probably cases where it's more or less e

> Does deleting stuff from the memory count as destroying evidence? Maybe? The line is more blurry here, but there are probably cases where it's more or less easy to make the distinction. If data is recorded on a permanent medium, it can be arbitrarily retrieved, an explicit delete operation is needed to get rid of it, and this deletion can be scheduled to happen at an arbitrary time - that might easily be understood as "destroying evidence". If you want asynchronous communication, you will need to produce records of some kind, which can be evidence. That's nothing new. Maybe if you have a system where the information must be exchanged live and falls off a cliff immediately no matter if it was observed or not, say, like a video conferencing tool - I wonder how the courts see that. It gets much closer to an interesting edge case than something with a 24-hour retention policy.