Bloomberg reports that Samsung has had the shredder running for quite some time:
"U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal in San Jose, California, today agreed with Apple that jurors should be told that they can draw an “adverse inference” from Samsung’s failure to avoid auto-deleting e-mail Apple later sought as evidence. The jury instruction is a “modest” method of correcting for any harm suffered by Apple and deterring Samsung’s practices in the future, Grewal wrote.
“In effect, Samsung kept the shredder on long after it should have known about this litigation,” Grewal wrote. The judge said the “rolling basis” Samsung used for deletions resulted in a similar ruling against the company in case filed in 2004."
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I'd always only ever known this shredding malarkey as scenes in films of governments and businesses destroying incriminating evidence; much like Samsung looks to have done. I didn't really consider that protecting my data was important as a self-employed worker.
ReplyDeleteThe next couple of months will be interesting for Samsung, with monopoly allegations in Korea and Apple moving away from buying components from them, will they still be the darling of the Android community?
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