If you had a case against someone else you would want documentation backing you up. But data can be a 2 edged sword, like MS, it came back to bite them. Most companies have such a huge volume of electronic data, they can't purge "unwanted" material in real time. They either back up everything or nothing, and the idea of no backup is more dangerous from a business standpoint.

Plus, as an honest minded person, you should not approach life with the idea of trying to figure out how to squirrel out of problems that haven't even surfaced yet.

And would you go to work for a company that had a policy that was something like: 'be sure to delete all data related to anything that might get us in trouble"? Or imagine what it would be like if you geta bunch of employees to delete all data related to a specific issue. If i was asked to do that, i would be all over a lawyer before I did anything.

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