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1. stickf+gv1[view] [source] 2026-02-03 18:13:35
>>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.

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2. ChuckM+ew2[view] [source] 2026-02-03 23:05:06
>>stickf+gv1
Sadly the media calls the lawful use of a warrant a 'raid' but that's another issue.

The warrant will have detailed what it is they are looking for, French warrants (and legal system!) are quite a bit different than the US but in broad terms operate similarly. It suggests that an enforcement agency believes that there is evidence of a crime at the offices.

As a former IT/operations guy I'd guess they want on-prem servers with things like email and shared storage, stuff that would hold internal discussions about the thing they were interested in, but that is just my guess based on the article saying this is related to the earlier complaint that Grok was generating CSAM on demand.

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3. chrisj+nK2[view] [source] 2026-02-04 00:25:45
>>ChuckM+ew2
> I'd guess they want on-prem servers with things like email and shared storage

For a net company in 2026? Fat chance.

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4. Barrin+EW2[view] [source] 2026-02-04 01:46:55
>>chrisj+nK2
Under GDPR if a company processes European user data they're obligated to make a "Record of Processing Activities" available on demand (umbrella term for a whole bunch of user-data / identity related stuff). They don't necessarily need to store them onsite but they need to be able to produce them. Saying you're an internet company doesn't mean you can just put the stuff on a server in the Caribbean and shrug when the regulators come knocking on your door

That's aside from the fact that they're a publicly traded company under obligation to keep a gazillion records anyway like in any other jurisdiction.

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5. derwik+am3[view] [source] 2026-02-04 05:41:54
>>Barrin+EW2
> publicly traded company

Which company is publicly traded?

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