> I’d imagine my emails are stored somewhere too, as well as the notes I wrote via Google docs. These aren't the same. It's been many years since I worked ther

> I’d imagine my emails are stored somewhere too, as well as the notes I wrote via Google docs. These aren't the same. It's been many years since I worked there, but it was well known that by default, email was automatically deleted after a while unless it was overridden for some reason (as sometimes is required for legal reasons). If you want to save something, Google Docs would be a better choice. ... > I don’t know whether they do this or even what their policies are; I’m just trying to use my own experience in the corporate world to speculate on what I imagine will be a much bigger issue in the future. Yeah, okay, but when speculating, you should probably assume that the legal issues around discovery and corporate record retention aren't going away. Logging everything just because it might be useful someday isn't too likely, particularly at a company that has been burned by this before.