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fastornator t1_j9x3230 wrote

Reply to comment by tricksterloki in US says Google routinely destroyed evidence and lied about use of auto-delete by OutlandishnessOk2452

I don't get it, should video conferences always be recorded and stored? For how long? should all meetings be recorded?

Why is it okay to pop down the hall and talk to your co-worker but you can't ask the same question over chat?

It seems like the government is basically asking Google to record all conversations between employees and keep them indefinitely which is quite a reach.

How about text messages between executives? How long should they be retained? What about when to executives are editing a google doc? Should the whole history of all the edits for every document be retained indefinitely?

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tricksterloki t1_j9x5bjb wrote

Some laws define necessary record keeping for certain tasks, such as tax info. If you have been instructed to preserve documents of a given type for a given legal case, you preserve that until after discovery at the very least. You might want to preserve it longer for your own legal purposes in that case. People can also be interviewed or subpoenad. It's not about storing it indefinitely. It's about being legally instructed to store it, saying you are, and then not storing it. Google specifically said it suspended auto-deletion but didn't. Google lying is the important part.

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daveime t1_j9xnvaj wrote

> If you have been instructed to preserve documents of a given type for a given legal case

However, in this case the "given type" was "everything". But totally not overreach.

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WhatTheZuck420 t1_ja1f4x8 wrote

>like the government is basically asking Google to record all conversations between employees and keep them indefinitely

they record and store all conversations within mic-shot of my phone

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