Google has been accused by DOJ of destroying evidence in antitrust case
The Justice Department requested a federal judge to sanction the company over its"intentional and repeated destruction of written communications," in a court filing on Thursday.According to the Justice Department's filing, Google has long had a practice of encouraging its employees to communicate via"off the record" chats which are automatically destroyed after 24 hours.
"Unsurprisingly then, Google was aware users often had"off the record" chats"to discuss sensitive topics," the Justice Department said in the filing. for using unlawful tactics to preserve its dominance over internet search. According to the Justice Department's filing, Google not only failed to suspend its auto-delete practices at the time, but continued to delete chats every 24 hours up until February 8 of this year.
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