Google CEO Sundar Pichai admits marking documents as 'privileged' and not turning off chat history deletion

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Sundar Pichai acknowledged in federal court on Tuesday that he sometimes marked documents as 'privileged' and never turned off a setting that caused internal chats to delete automatically after one day. Pichai was in court in San Francisco to defend Alphabet's Google from a lawsuit by Epic Games that alleges itsAttorneys for Epic Games, maker of the wildly popular 'Fortnite' game, appeared to be trying to establish that Pichai and Google were concealing sensitive communications that could later be used against it in a potential trial.

Sundar Pichai acknowledged in federal court on Tuesday that he sometimes marked documents as 'privileged' and never turned off a setting that caused internal chats to delete automatically after one day.

Pichai was in court in San Francisco to defend Alphabet's Google from a lawsuit by Epic Games that alleges itsAttorneys for Epic Games, maker of the wildly popular 'Fortnite' game, appeared to be trying to establish that Pichai and Google were concealing sensitive communications that could later be used against it in a potential trial. Jurors were shown an internal Google document reminding employees that 'anything you write can become subject to review in legal discovery' as well as one of Pichai's chat histories where he requested that history be turned off, meaning messages would be erased

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