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Judge mulls sanctions over Google’s “shocking” destruction of internal chats (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Womble@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Using encryption has essentially nothing in common with deleting records while under investigation.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -5 points 6 months ago

If they deleted records that's different. What it sounds like is that they just turned off logging when discussing sensitive topics. That isn't a great practice in this case but at the same time that shouldn't automatically make them guilty.