Justice Department says Google destroyed evidence related to antitrust lawsuit
Funny how Google can ignore the privacy of internet users&#x27; conversations but when it comes to their employees&#x27; conversations, Google does not want to share those with the Government.  According to the Government&#x27;s memo supporting sanctions, Google is deleting conversations within 24h despite being under litigation holds.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ia902501.us.archive.org&#x2F;21&#x2F;items&#x2F;gov.uscourts.dcd.223205&#x2F;gov.uscourts.dcd.223205.512.1.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ia902501.us.archive.org&#x2F;21&#x2F;items&#x2F;gov.uscourts.dcd.22...</a><p>Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt appearing on CNBC once said &quot;If you have something that you don&#x27;t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn&#x27;t be doing it in the first place.&quot;<p>If Google is not doing anything wrong, then why not give the Government what it is are asking for and let justice prevail.<p>Google collects and surveils internet users&#x27; conversations on a mass scale without a subpoena, for whatever purpose(s) it chooses, for profit.  To Schmidt, and 130,000+ other people on Google&#x27;s corporate welfare, that&#x27;s apparently acceptable.  However when the Government subpoenas Google for Google&#x27;s conversations, for the sole purpose of determining whether Google is complying with the law, Google resists.<p>Personal data mining on billions of people.  No problem.  Monitoring employees to catch leakers and whistleblowers.  Can do.  Saving employee chats to satisty document requests from the Government. Too time-consuming and burdensome!<p>There is perhaps no company in the world better equipped to comb through peoples&#x27; conversations.