Re:Run a script when police raid your house
by Spooky23 on Friday January 23, 2015 @12:34PM
(#8936078)
This is a really stupid thing to do.
Willful destruction of evidence is a criminal act in many cases, and even in cases where it isn't, judges can instruct juries to make adverse inferences.
If you're handling sensitive material, you should have a consistent policy/practice to periodically purge, destroy or deal with data. You're less likely to get into hot water over deleting data if its a long-standing process. If you are involved in a criminal scheme and the police are busting down the door, they have evidence already.
Previous jobs had me involved in alot of civil litigation from the IT side. Many really serious problems were avoided by having good deletion policy. The place that let employees squirrel away email for 20 years would either lose cases because of stupid employee chatter or win pyrrhic victories after spending thousands (or millions in one case) of dollars on discovery.
Willful destruction of evidence is a criminal act in many cases, and even in cases where it isn't, judges can instruct juries to make adverse inferences.
If you're handling sensitive material, you should have a consistent policy/practice to periodically purge, destroy or deal with data. You're less likely to get into hot water over deleting data if its a long-standing process. If you are involved in a criminal scheme and the police are busting down the door, they have evidence already.
Previous jobs had me involved in alot of civil litigation from the IT side. Many really serious problems were avoided by having good deletion policy. The place that let employees squirrel away email for 20 years would either lose cases because of stupid employee chatter or win pyrrhic victories after spending thousands (or millions in one case) of dollars on discovery.