> If the judge finds that Amazon was negligent in failing to preserve data tied to the case I think there's several big obstacles the prosecution would have to

> If the judge finds that Amazon was negligent in failing to preserve data tied to the case I think there's several big obstacles the prosecution would have to overcome in order for that to happen. For one, someone would have to violate their own Fifth Amendment right and admit that they used Signal intentionally to hide things relevant to the investigation. Also, how is "disappearing messages" any different from a private IRL conversation? Nobody is calling a casual chat in the park "destruction of evidence".