alt Hacker News> It is ironic and indefensible how a company known for storing and gathering the world's information, engages directly in a massive evidence spoliation... That is deletes information.
Not at all. Obviously, Google's mission is to organize the world's public information. You don't want Google organizing your personal Gmail for the world to see, do you? So why would you expect Google to organize its own instant messages for the world to see?
> You have the DoJ and three judges looking at you with your pants down.
Judges disagree with each other. All the time. Investigations often don't even make it to trial because there isn't a good case in the end. And just because you have judges investigating you doesn't mean you're guilty. Presumption of innocence and all that, you know?
Just for the second comment related to guilt: it is now an undisputed fact as Courts are concerned that evidence spoliation happened. They are looking for who inside Google was involved here.
Equivalently: there is a body, we know for a fact it was murder, and we know the killer is somebody here. Presumption of innocence will become applicable against whoever the prosecution goes as an individual. Not that the crime happened.
On the first comment: Google does use emails to target ads, so I am not sure what the argument is, could you clarify perhaps?