Lol if Google keeps at this they'll end up introducing trade house style record keeping policies to the IT industry.

https://ia601707.us.archive.org/28/...
[PDF, plaintiffs' response regarding Google's destruction of evidence]

I can't believe that Epic Games is being the voice of the people, but here we are.

Nobody reads that pff. Any nees article about it?

So epic is still trying to suit their way into having their own market place on Android and Apple I see.

Of course they'll try and delete evidence, you can't be guilty otherwise.

@aviophile it's just about Google employees intentionally destroying chats to avoid them being used in court.

Isn't that how big business usually operates anyway? Big business is impossible without foul play

@iiii There are levels to it. I'm certain that malicious people congregate in high positions within organizations more powerful than transparent because they're more motivated to reach such a position than people with tangential intentions to unsupervised power. But in the financial sector it's understood that the operation of these organizations is of public interest so most companies cooperate with external supervision agencies and are happy to get away with constraints on their internal structure if they are found responsible for major fallouts.

What's unique about Google is the culture of looking down on regulations. Google employees genuinely believe that the regulators are the bad guys.

@lorentz other organizations are in cahoots with each other anyway