>These sorts of cases are often attempts to establish precedent that they can use to go after others under similar theories. There is already a lot of preceden

>These sorts of cases are often attempts to establish precedent that they can use to go after others under similar theories. There is already a lot of precedent around policies related to spoliation which is why it would be a surprise to me if Google's legal team actually did advise employees to do this as a blanket policy. It seems more likely that they said they could do it for things that are not potentially relevant to litigation and the execs took it as far as they wanted to go.