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by revelio 1191 days ago
Whether it seems devious or not to you, has no bearing on whether it's legal. The court does not say "you need to create records on this topic going forward". It says "you need to retain records you already created on this topic".

One thing that may confuse people is that some industries like finance are subject to regulations that force them to create records of employee conversations even if normally they wouldn't and even if there's no pending lawsuit. But those are industry specific rules governing specific activities like trading, not a general legal concept that'd have applied to Google.

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The records existed for 24 hours and were then deleted.