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Tech critics want a Google exec punished for deleted chats

Google’s deleted chats are coming back to haunt it.

The so-called Walker Memo was highlighted in the Department of Justice’s recent antitrust trial, one of multiple cases where Google has been accused of obscuring potentially incriminating documents. Walker also allegedly advised the company implement a “communicate with care” policy, which instructed employees to do things like gratuitously invoke attorney-client privilege on sensitive emails. The recent Google ad tech trial saw government attorneys repeatedly flash documents marked with “privileged and confidential,” as witnesses struggled to explain why lawyers had been looped into email threads.

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