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Google chief legal officer Kent Walker is being confronted with his 2008 decision to make chats “off the record” by default.

We’re looking at this email again, which Walker appears to be saying he co-wrote and confirms he co-signed.

He says part of the rationale for the email, which he says was sent during his first year as Google’s general counsel (a position he held from 2006 through 2018, he confirmed) was to set some standards for document retention.

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