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A previous employer who shall not be named had a policy that all Slack DMs older than 2 weeks were immediately deleted. Can't find any smoking guns if the gun h
by 0xy 3y ago
A previous employer who shall not be named had a policy that all Slack DMs older than 2 weeks were immediately deleted. Can't find any smoking guns if the gun has been incinerated.
- colinmorelli 3y agoWe did this at a previous startup and it had nothing to do with smoking guns. We were in healthcare and, although we had a strict policy against posting any PHI in slack, we still purged history in the off chance that it did end up somewhere. It’s just another layer to privacy protections. It also had the nice benefit of forcing people to store actual knowledge in Notion where it could be organized and more easily discoverable. Anyway, all this to say - there are many reasons to purge slack history that aren’t nefarious (even if the practice is ill advised by some)