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>>vikave+(OP)
Honest question: What does it mean to "raid" the offices of a tech company? It's not like they have file cabinets with paper records. Are they just seizing employee workstations?

Seems like you'd want to subpoena source code or gmail history or something like that. Not much interesting in an office these days.

>>stickf+gv1
Gather evidence.

I assume that they have opened a formal investigation and are now going to the office to collect/perloin evidence before it's destroyed.

Most FAANG companies have training specifically for this. I assume X doesn't anymore, because they are cool and edgy, and staff training is for the woke.

>>Kaiser+q02
If that training involves destroying evidence or withholding evidence from the prosecution, you are going to jail if you follow it.

>>nieman+042
What a strange assumption. The training is "summon the lawyers immediately", "ensure they're accompanied at all times while on company premises", etc.

>>hn_go_+J42
That can start with self deleting messages if you are under court order, and has happens before:

“Google intended to subvert the discovery process, and that Chat evidence was ‘lost with the intent to prevent its use in litigation’ and ‘with the intent to deprive another party of the information’s use in the litigation.’”

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.37...

VW is another case where similar things happens:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-12/vw-offici...

The thing is: Companies don’t got to jail, employees do.