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Google CEO Sundar Pichai on his obligations to preserve evidence for trial:

He says his legal hold instructions were:

I was instructed to preserve documents be it email, my documents on my computer or physical documents, and not to use chat regarding the litigation matter, and if I used chat, to turn history on.

Did you follow these instructions? “Yes I did.”

And, Pichai and Google say, Epic’s smoking gun “chat history off” request was about a “Cloud Next Keynote” event. Nothing to do with Android, Play, or this lawsuit, he attests.

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