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Reasonable steps “would include taking action to suspend all auto-delete functions that are in place, right?”

Google chief legal officer Kent Walker’s reply:

I think for many years we used direction to employees because we felt that the overwhelming majority for use cases Talk or Chat [...] were not a high business utility, but where there was a litigation hold, we would issue specific directions to employees to retain those materials.

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