“LaSala responded, instructing the employee to “start a ping with history turned off.””
Google set chat history to off by default, even for employees under a litigation hold, and left it to each worker to flip it back on. Executives stamped “privileged and confidential” on business emails and trained staff to “communicate with care.” One ex-executive said “My MO was mostly off the record, so old tricks die hard.” The first judge warned Google it “may not be so lucky in the next one,” and this is the next one.