Google accused of wilfully destroying evidence - again

Penny Horwood
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Google Chat messages were subjected to scrutiny
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Google Chat messages were subjected to scrutiny

Google selectively utilised the history feature of Google Chat to try to make messages pertaining to ongoing antitrust lawsuit disappear.

Google destroyed messages which may have contained evidence for antitrust suits against the company, ruled a US federal judge yesterday.  Judge James Donato, presiding over the suit, was quite c...

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