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> the unrecognized liability companies are taking on by logging every scrap of internal communication

Do any large companies not delete everything at the first opportunity?



Google used to have all 1:1 chats autodeleted in 24hrs, unless the employee explicitly disabled it for a specific chat in question. But then they got in trouble with DOJ for that last year[0].

0. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/antitrust/google-chat-deletion...


no, of course not. Especially not disney. they need every shred of everything, for liability's sake. If someone brings something to HR, they need to be able to tamp it down. They keep receipts of everything, all the time.

I know a lot of these types of entertainment companies employ things like keyloggers or remote screen viewers in case an employee is working on a writing project or drawing/painting a picture during their lunch hour, because if they are, everything they make, write, sketch or even jot down belongs to disney exclusively... and if they, say, bring that script to prospective publishers outside the company a year later, or try to sell a print of the artwork they created, they can intervene and stop you.

if you take a shit in their staff bathrooms, that turd belongs to them too.


> if you take a shit in their staff bathrooms, that turd belongs to them too.

Yeah. That’s how we got Cars 4.




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