Justice Department says Google destroyed evidence related to antitrust lawsuit
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Re: Justice Department says Google destroyed evidence related to antitrust lawsuit
#2It's true, it was well known internally that internal chat that are sensitive would be auto deleted.
Re: Justice Department says Google destroyed evidence related to antitrust lawsuit
#3https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18552824/512/1/united-s...
> The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure required Google to suspend its auto-delete practices in mid-2019, when the company reasonably anticipated this litigation. Google did not. Instead, as described above, Google abdicated its burden to individual custodians to preserve potentially relevant chats. Few, if any, document custodians did so. That is, few custodians, if any, manually changed, on a chat-by-chat basis, the history default from off to on. This means that for nearly four years, Google systematically destroyed an entire category of written communications every 24 hours.
> All this time, Google falsely told the United States that Google had “put a legal hold in place” that “suspends auto-deletion.”
zoinks
Re: Justice Department says Google destroyed evidence related to antitrust lawsuit
#4https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18552824/512/1/united-s... > The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure required Google to suspend its auto-delete practices in mid-2019, when the company reasonably anticipated this litigation. Google did not. Instead, as described above, Google abdicated its burden to individual custodians to preserve potentially relevant chats. Few, if any, document custodians did so. That is, few cu…
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Re: Justice Department says Google destroyed evidence related to antitrust lawsuit
#5https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18552824/512/1/united-s... > The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure required Google to suspend its auto-delete practices in mid-2019, when the company reasonably anticipated this litigation. Google did not. Instead, as described above, Google abdicated its burden to individual custodians to preserve potentially relevant chats. Few, if any, document custodians did so. That is, few cu…
It sounds like there were disagreements between Google's lawyers and the DOJ lawyers on the scope of the hold and what constitutes "reasonable."
Re: Justice Department says Google destroyed evidence related to antitrust lawsuit
#6https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18552824/512/1/united-s... > The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure required Google to suspend its auto-delete practices in mid-2019, when the company reasonably anticipated this litigation. Google did not. Instead, as described above, Google abdicated its burden to individual custodians to preserve potentially relevant chats. Few, if any, document custodians did so. That is, few cu…
> That is, few custodians, if any, manually changed, on a chat-by-chat basis, the history default from off to on.
they cannot reasonably expect every day employees with no stakes or info into the confidential dealings would care about this. Al Alongside Google wouldn't care about them not caring.
Re: Justice Department says Google destroyed evidence related to antitrust lawsuit
#7https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18552824/512/1/united-s... > The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure required Google to suspend its auto-delete practices in mid-2019, when the company reasonably anticipated this litigation. Google did not. Instead, as described above, Google abdicated its burden to individual custodians to preserve potentially relevant chats. Few, if any, document custodians did so. That is, few cu…
It sounds like there were disagreements between Google's lawyers and the DOJ lawyers on the scope of the hold and what constitutes "reasonable."
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Re: Justice Department says Google destroyed evidence related to antitrust lawsuit
#8https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18552824/512/1/united-s... > The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure required Google to suspend its auto-delete practices in mid-2019, when the company reasonably anticipated this litigation. Google did not. Instead, as described above, Google abdicated its burden to individual custodians to preserve potentially relevant chats. Few, if any, document custodians did so. That is, few cu…
> Google did not. Instead, as described above, Google abdicated its burden to individual custodians to preserve potentially relevant chats.
Google didn't do it, it was those other individuals who defied the court order. Uh huh.
Re: Justice Department says Google destroyed evidence related to antitrust lawsuit
#9But, but, but .... don't be evil.
Re: Justice Department says Google destroyed evidence related to antitrust lawsuit
#10Terrible. Slaps on the wrist for everyone. Maybe a $5M fine to really teach them a lesson.