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Re:If it will matter after today, don't talk about it in a c... by legerdemain on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @02:45PM (#25752394)
I'm willing to bet money that for every company that deletes emails older than some age also deletes Slack messages, and deletes then sooner.

I speak as someone who worked for a company where email got archived and then deleted after 6 months, and currently works at a company where everyone only uses Slack, and Slack is purged after 30 days.

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Re:If it will matter after today, don't talk about it in a c... by flerchin on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @02:50PM (#25752463)
Our email has a 90 day retention window, and Slack is permanent. We're the largest in our industry.
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Re:If it will matter after today, don't talk about it in a c... by grok22 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:28PM (#25753068)
Isn't that just a company policy? At some-point, the lawyers will get clued-in and require that even on Slack and other company-wide chat there be a limited retention window!
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Re:If it will matter after today, don't talk about it in a c... by legerdemain on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @02:54PM (#25752525)
Cool! Where should I send bet money?
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Re:If it will matter after today, don't talk about it in a c... by flerchin on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:01PM (#25752617)
Mozilla or EFF, your choice. :-D
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Re:If it will matter after today, don't talk about it in a c... by legerdemain on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:08PM (#25752731)
Excellent, $25 sent to EFF!
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Re:If it will matter after today, don't talk about it in a c... by fencepost on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @06:13PM (#25755354)
Do the people who wrote the email policy know that Slack is permanent? That sounds like the kind of thing that could easily be not-understood by legal.
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Re:If it will matter after today, don't talk about it in a c... by KirillPanov on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @10:47PM (#25757784)
Yeah this policy mismatch definitely seems like a "nobody in legal has noticed yet".

They're gonna notice real quick the next time they get sued by somebody clueful enough to subpoena that goldmine.

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Re:If it will matter after today, don't talk about it in a c... by KirillPanov on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @10:45PM (#25757770)
Have your Slack chats been subpoenaed yet?

If not, you are very lucky that you are being sued by people with incompetent attorneys.

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