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by woofcat 832 days ago
Being punished for either destroying evidence or contempt of court. Neither will be fun for you.
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the semantics matter here though, in the absence of the existence of a lawsuit or any sort of legal proceedings is my data classified as "evidence"?
No it's not. No-one has claimed it is. The parent of this whole thread is "If ever I'm the subject of a lawsuit that'd require me to turn in my computer, I'd scrub it to oblivion at the slightest intimation of what's happening."

'So if I was being sued, I'd destroy evidence.' is a great way for the court to give you the hardest of times, and potentially jail time.