My organization just lost a entire email account full of emails needed for a law suite.
What happened was me or someone else (we don’t know who) accidently deleted a gsuite account a few months ago. This account was from a employee who pasted away a few years back. We didn’t realize that it was deleted until we needed it.
I like many people I had the misconception that data in the “cloud” can not be deleted. I was entirely wrong. We are now in some serious dodo and I don’t know what we are going to do.
A law firm not using email archiving? That’s just plain negligence.
Law firms are the worst. They think they are the law so don’t give a shit. I have a family member working at one at the moment. So many illegal things they do it’s astounding.
I’d also say that if there’s no backup for It, it does not exist.
I thought that legally the server side had to retain emails for 5 - year terms particularly for legal situations. If google were subpoenaed I believe they would hav two provide
I don’t mean to be rude but why on earth would someone think data in the cloud cannot be deleted? This is not even something that I have seen remotely advertised or something like that so I don’t get where it’s coming from? Especially when the person is working in IT …
Its not that I assuming that it couldn’t be deleted. I just had the assumtion in the back og my head that google had all the backups
