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According to Facebook employees who spoke with the New York Times, staffers are also urging the company to hunt down the leakers who released the Bosworth memo.
If the report is accurate, the deletion of internal communications could have legal implications, including in an ongoing Federal Trade Commission investigation into the company’s data-handling practices. Destruction of internal documents was a partial focus of the FTC’s recent investigation of Volkswagen.
Bosworth’s memo continued catastrophic PR fallout following findings that the Facebook data of as many as 50 million users was wrongly harvested by the election consulting firm Cambridge Analytica. In the memo leaked Thursday, Bosworth wrote that “connecting people” should be the company’s driving goal, even if “it costs someone a life by exposing someone to bullies” or “someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools.”
(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday April 02 2018, @09:35PM
The law in most places doesn't mandate retention or forbid deletion, it merely requires a written policy covering retention.
If your policy is to delete and purge backups after three years, that's fine. Our company did that as well - but it got messy after a while as some government contracts required longer retention for project related memos, and email.
However, once the subpoena or lawsuit is served, all bets are off. Because at that point in time everything you have on file is "discover-able" and you better have it on file.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.