That can start with self deleting messages if you are under court order, and has happens before:

“Google intended to subvert the discovery process, and that Chat evidence was ‘lost with the intent to prevent its use in litigation’ and ‘with the intent to deprive another party of the information’s use in the litigation.’”

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.37...

VW is another case where similar things happens:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-12/vw-offici...

The thing is: Companies don’t got to jail, employees do.

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