• gregorum@lemm.ee
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    Even the judge hates that Google keeps shutting down projects unexpectedly

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      It is shocking because they did it after the investigation had started, which is monumentally stupid.

      You can destroy any records you want at any time, unless there’s an investigation underway or you have good reason to believe one will be starting. At that point, you’re destroying evidence.

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        The crazy part is the implication that the evidence destroyed was probably more damning than having a judge and jury assume anything reasonably suggested to have been implicated by those chats as true.

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          I wager they’re so used to getting away with shit that destroying evidence probably says less about the crimes committed and more about the piss-poor justice system.

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            *sigh* After reading some of the other comments, I have to agree. I’m not sure whether to be relieved or even more discouraged. It’s a dreadfully boring dystopia.

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      No, it’s shocking that the destroyed evidence after being explicitly instructed not to.

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    Make destroying evidence a worse offense than the crime (or as a de facto admission of guilt) and sanction them accordingly.

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    $10 says they’re backed up somewhere.

    A company like Google has redundant backups in their veins.

    Just sayin.

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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    You shouldn’t use deleted chats as evidence. That is a precedent that should not be a allowed to stand. Its up there with Tor users automatically being criminals.

    I’m am sure they can find some evidence even if they have to fall back to interviews of employees.

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        However, in U.S. federal courts, updates to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in 2015 have resulted in significant decline in spoliation sanctions.

        Oof. Five bucks says this change was driven by concerted megacorp lobbying efforts.

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      Google was accused of enacting a policy instructing employees to turn chat history off by default when discussing sensitive topics

      According to the DOJ, Google destroyed potentially hundreds of thousands of chat sessions not just during their investigation but also during litigation. Google only stopped the practice after the DOJ discovered the policy. DOJ’s attorney Kenneth Dintzer told Mehta Friday that the DOJ believed the court should "conclude that communicating with history off shows anti-competitive intent to hide information because they knew they were violating antitrust law.

      It’s perfectly reasonable to see this practice of avoiding the creation of evidence of their wrongdoing as evidence of wrongdoing, which is 100% what it is.

      It’s not the same as a person using TOR, it’s a company hiding evidence.

      • unreasonabro@lemmy.world
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        Pfft. Then you’ll be complaining about all the dummies that didn’t even understand your progressively more simple prose as you try to explain semi-complex concepts to people with no shared educational background

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        What post? You just dumped a link on lemmy with a title attached to it.

        Not even a small summary or anything, something that I would consider the bare minimum for a post.

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            True, but what do I need this “post” for then?

            It’s just kinda irritating to me that I need to open an additional window for something that should’ve been in the post to begin with.

            Title and small summary, that’s all I’m asking for here. Give me the bare minimum to decide if opening the whole article is worth it.

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                Well it’s great that you have that opinion on lemmy, I prefer something that doesn’t look like a bot-post and actually has some content.

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              welp, better get working on the next big internet thing then

              hey, did you know there are other “implementations” - basically skins for lemmy, one of which I seem to recall looking more like what you’re asking for. They were sidebarred somewhere, see if you can find those

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      You have zero understanding about corpoorate governence and record detection laws. You should get educated instead of providing uneducated opinions lol