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Judge finds Google destroyed evidence and repeatedly lied to the court [pdf]

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Re: Judge finds Google destroyed evidence and repeatedly lied to the court [pdf]

#91

It's a useful reminder not to pay attention to legal commentary from HN, most of the comments were saying that Google did nothing wrong w.r.t. these messages.

Ah, the stodgy old "only ever discuss things with experts" advice.

More that no one is as smart as the average HN user thinks they are.

Re: Judge finds Google destroyed evidence and repeatedly lied to the court [pdf]

#92
post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

there's a group to join to enable history by default.

It still has a timeout, just a longer one, and there's some caveat about the other side sending first that I forget. The only solid solution is to discuss everything in a space instead of a regular group/1:1 chat.

And even that has a timeout, just a much longer one.

Re: Judge finds Google destroyed evidence and repeatedly lied to the court [pdf]

#93

It's a useful reminder not to pay attention to legal commentary from HN, most of the comments were saying that Google did nothing wrong w.r.t. these messages.

To be fair nearly all those comments gave arguments about what the law ought be, not about what it actually was. Those two things shouldn't be confused regardless of who is arguing them.

Re: Judge finds Google destroyed evidence and repeatedly lied to the court [pdf]

#94
post #89

> The record demonstrates otherwise. An abundance of evidence establishes that Google employees routinely used Chat to discuss substantive business topics, including matters relevant to this antitrust litigation. > Google left employees largely on their own to determine what Chat communications might be relevant to the many critical legal and factual issues in this complex antitrust litigation. All true. I'm just gla…

I wonder how corporations are going to adapt to a world where more and more meetings are transcribed and summarized by language models. Adopting that technology, while it's a productivity boost, will expose companies to vastly greater amounts of liability. There are a lot of comments that can get made off-hand in a meeting that would never make it into chat, let alone an email.

Just do what my company does, and delete all Teams chats in 24 hours! So secure! So protective! So useful, when you need to refer to what was told you last week, before you understood you needed it.

Re: Judge finds Google destroyed evidence and repeatedly lied to the court [pdf]

#95
post #93

It's a useful reminder not to pay attention to legal commentary from HN, most of the comments were saying that Google did nothing wrong w.r.t. these messages.

To be fair nearly all those comments gave arguments about what the law ought be, not about what it actually was. Those two things shouldn't be confused regardless of who is arguing them.

And for a good reason: the new Restrict act that bans private digital E2E communication in US gives unprecedented level of power to the US government.

Re: Judge finds Google destroyed evidence and repeatedly lied to the court [pdf]

#96
> At any given time, Google has thousands of employees who are under a litigation hold for document preservation.

Crazy, it's an order of magnitude more than I'd guess.

> Lim testified that the thought process that he might need to save something that was said because he was subject to a legal hold simply “doesn’t occur because, as I said, I’m under so many legal holds, it’s impossible to think that way.”

This is also a crazy thing to say. But I guess I misunderstand something here, just before that it says that he did try to save _something_ copying it into docs etc and the problem is that he wasn't saving _everything_.

Re: Judge finds Google destroyed evidence and repeatedly lied to the court [pdf]

#97
post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder how corporations are going to adapt to a world where more and more meetings are transcribed and summarized by language models. Adopting that technology, while it's a productivity boost, will expose companies to vastly greater amounts of liability. There are a lot of comments that can get made off-hand in a meeting that would never make it into chat, let alone an email.

Just do what my company does, and delete all Teams chats in 24 hours! So secure! So protective! So useful, when you need to refer to what was told you last week, before you understood you needed it.

Uh did you read the article cause it addresses that idea.

Re: Judge finds Google destroyed evidence and repeatedly lied to the court [pdf]

#98

> The record demonstrates otherwise. An abundance of evidence establishes that Google employees routinely used Chat to discuss substantive business topics, including matters relevant to this antitrust litigation. > Google left employees largely on their own to determine what Chat communications might be relevant to the many critical legal and factual issues in this complex antitrust litigation. All true. I'm just gla…

Some businesses, not sure on google, will actually have lawyers on most meetings in order to circumvent subpoenas as it's "protected" discussions that way... I don't recall the details, just rememember seeing a report on the practice.

This is explicitly something Google has been found having done, and been told it won't work. Generally speaking, if the lawyer's input is not requested, and the lawyer does not respond, the attempt to claim it's privileged will be thrown out.

Here is the DOJ accusing Google of that exactly, a year ago, related to the same case: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/google-routinely...

Re: Judge finds Google destroyed evidence and repeatedly lied to the court [pdf]

#99

The disappearing chat messages were a pain in the ass for employees too.

"The disappearing chat messages were a pain in the ass for employees too." This disappearing chat messages are a pain in the ass for employees, but they were a pain in the ass for employees too.

Used past tense cause I quit (not cause of that), also cause after a while people got used to it and found workarounds.

Re: Judge finds Google destroyed evidence and repeatedly lied to the court [pdf]

#100
post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder how corporations are going to adapt to a world where more and more meetings are transcribed and summarized by language models. Adopting that technology, while it's a productivity boost, will expose companies to vastly greater amounts of liability. There are a lot of comments that can get made off-hand in a meeting that would never make it into chat, let alone an email.

Just do what my company does, and delete all Teams chats in 24 hours! So secure! So protective! So useful, when you need to refer to what was told you last week, before you understood you needed it.

indeed, the notion of "on the record" was introduced because a lot of genuinely useful non-sensitive info was conveyed in chat, and people needed to save it.
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