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Comment on Judge mulls sanctions over Google’s “shocking” destruction of internal chats

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampering_with_evidence#Spoliation

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Enkers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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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