• Hegar@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    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.