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goatinaboat on Jan 3, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: I Was Google’s Head of International Relations

It's wild that this continual destruction of evidence is not only tolerated but SOP.

I bet it’s still on the backup tapes. So when slapped with a court order it will be an order of magnitude more expensive for them to disclose.

candiodari on Jan 3, 2020 [–]

You destroy the encryption keys to those backups, not the data itself. This is a problem that has long been solved.

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