According to Bloomberg and CNBC, a federal judge ruled that Google violated a court order requiring it to preserve employee chat messages relevant to Epic’s antitrust case. According to US District Judge James Donato in San Francisco, the tech giant “adopted a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy for keeping messages, at the expense of its preservation duties,” and must be held accountable for its actions. Donato has yet to decide what sanctions and penalties Google should face, but he has ordered the company to pay Epic’s legal fees in connection with this particular issue.
