From what I gather, a company is being asked to retain potential evidence during a lawsuit involving said data. Am I missing something? What’s outside the norm here?
The only thing I can tell is that they were already saving the chats of personal accounts but their SLAs prevent them from doing so with some corporate accounts. Apparently there is some concern that proprietary information will now be made part of a public case. Personally I feel like that’s the price of being an early adopter of something most people said was a bad idea but what do I know?
Well, if classified information from government agencies comes to light in this case, there will be problems. Also important companies.
The only problem I see is that such storage could conflict with EU privacy laws, but the rest is normal.
Uhhh - no one should be under the impression that deleting something actually deletes it.
