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This is why companies have data retention settings to automatically delete old emails and slack/teams/etc. and special processes a classifications to store those communications that relate to contracts and such.
This is why compliance frameworks have retention policies that combat the natural desire companies have to destroy their own records and logs. SOX retention rules are directly the result of realizing Enron only could be busted after their emails were recovered.
Twice in my career I’ve been at an org where the legal team decided to destroy all emails over a year old and then a year or two later had the same company revert that rule after deciding to go public and being forced by SOX audits to start retaining records again.
Google is a public company, so depending on how far back they deleted, they could be in hot water with the SEC. You know, in a world where the SEC actually still did their jobs
I was gonna say, the SEC may as well not exist now.
Along with every other safeguard designed to protect the people from corruption.
The sundowning rapist felon traitor's handlers made sure of that.