How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment, telling staff to destroy messages, avoid some words, and copy in lawyers, as it faces US lawsuits
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David Streitfeld / New York Times: How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment, telling staff to destroy messages, avoid some words, and copy in lawyers, as it faces US lawsuits  —  Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google systematically told employees to destroy messages, avoid certain words and copy the lawyers as often as possible.

  • TexasDrunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Color me shocked. I worked for an upstream oil company that did the same thing because they knew there would be lawsuits (there always are). They also know that in discovery they’re searching for certain key words and can guess what a lot of them are.