Judge finds Google destroyed evidence and repeatedly lied to the court [pdf]
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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]
#2More plaintext summary at Ars for those looking for the Cliff Notes version: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/judge-finds-goog...
This pertains both to the lawsuit from Epic Games as well as from the Department of Justice.
Re: Judge finds Google destroyed evidence and repeatedly lied to the court [pdf]
#3It's worth it b/c corporations only get penalized with measly fines
Re: Judge finds Google destroyed evidence and repeatedly lied to the court [pdf]
#4It's not "Google" (corporations don't exist in the physical world, so they can't act in it), it was specific people at Google who destroyed evidence or lied to court.
Re: Judge finds Google destroyed evidence and repeatedly lied to the court [pdf]
#5It's worth it b/c corporations only get penalized with measly fines
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Re: Judge finds Google destroyed evidence and repeatedly lied to the court [pdf]
#6It's worth it b/c corporations only get penalized with measly fines
I’ve often thought that when a company, especially one as big as Alphabet/Google, gets fined, it’s simply seen as an operating cost and not as a motivator to do better.
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#8It's not "Google" (corporations don't exist in the physical world, so they can't act in it), it was specific people at Google who destroyed evidence or lied to court.
Perhaps the solution then is to identify every individual who chose to keep chat history off despite awareness of the litigation hold (particularly those where evidence exists here showing it was an intentional choice), charge them with contempt of court, and put them in jail for a year or so. It's a crime, you can get jail time for it, and if you do it enough times, people will pay attention to it.
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#9It'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.
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#10It's not "Google" (corporations don't exist in the physical world, so they can't act in it), it was specific people at Google who destroyed evidence or lied to court.
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