Justice Department says Google destroyed evidence related to antitrust lawsuit
<a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18552824/512/1/united-states-of-america-v-google-llc/" rel="nofollow">https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18552824/512/1/united-s...</a><p>> The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure required Google to suspend its auto-delete practices in mid-2019, when the company reasonably anticipated this litigation. Google did not. Instead, as described above, Google abdicated its burden to individual custodians to preserve potentially relevant chats. Few, if any, document custodians did so. That is, few custodians, if any, manually changed, on a chat-by-chat basis, the history default from off to on. This means that for nearly four years, Google systematically destroyed an entire category of written communications every 24 hours.<p>> All this time, Google falsely told the United States that Google had “put a legal hold in place” that “suspends auto-deletion.”<p>zoinks