Judge Vows to Investigate Google for Deleting Evidence

Judge James Donato, who is s overseeing Epic v. Google, vowed to investigate Google for intentionally and systematically suppressing evidence, calling the company’s conduct “a frontal assault on the fair administration of justice.” Testimony in the trial — and in a parallel DOJ antitrust suit against Google in Washington, D.C. — revealed that Google automatically deleted chat messages between employees, and that employees all the way up to CEO Sundar Pichai intentionally used that to make certain conversations disappear.