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The underlying reason is that employees don't always know what they're talking about, but their nonsense could be useful to the other side in a court case.

The bigger the company, the more speculation there is about stuff people don't actually understand.

This is just companies fighting back against the ever-expanding powers of state surveillance.

Back when the relevant laws were written, most communications was oral and in-person, writing was reserved for the "important stuff". We now apply the laws that were designed for memos to messages on Slack, which are a lot like conversations than permanent documents.

That makes a lot of sense to me, thank you. I was probably projecting a lot of my own fears and feelings into the interpretation of a lot of what some of my courses are trying to teach me.
The underlying reason is to break the law and not get caught. Let’s be real here.
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That’s not the underlying reason.