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Google chief legal officer: “I had never heard the phrase fake privilege.”

Even though this has apparently come up in another Google legal case, Walker claims he wasn’t previously aware of the phrase — or that intentionally marking things as privileged, just to keep them more private, happens within Google.

He concedes that some Google employees do copy in lawyers, even when no legal advice is being sought or received. (Those are Moskowitz’s, words, not his, but he says yes.)

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