[slight rant] This is a reminder to be careful with data in the "cloud"
[slight rant] This is a reminder to be careful with data in the "cloud"
My organization just lost a entire email account full of emails needed for a law suite.
What happened was me or someone else (we don't know who) accidently deleted a gsuite account a few months ago. This account was from a employee who pasted away a few years back. We didn't realize that it was deleted until we needed it.
I like many people I had the misconception that data in the "cloud" can not be deleted. I was entirely wrong. We are now in some serious dodo and I don't know what we are going to do.
I'd also say that if there's no backup for It, it does not exist.
And if you haven't tested recovery, it doesn't exist either.
JP Morgan Chase, is that you?
A law firm not using email archiving? That's just plain negligence.
Law firms are the worst. They think they are the law so don't give a shit. I have a family member working at one at the moment. So many illegal things they do it's astounding.
I thought that legally the server side had to retain emails for 5 - year terms particularly for legal situations. If google were subpoenaed I believe they would hav two provide
What makes you think that? Which country and law says that it's the cloud providers responsibility, and not the company in question?
Where I am, there's law that says architects need to keep building drawings for 99 years. That's not up to autodesk. That's up to the architecture firm using autodesk products.
It happened to an IT client of mine. He attempted to delete 10 years of cloud files and emails on google to escape forth coming legal troubles about a year in advance. The accounts were deleted. Long before I was involved. He thought he could get away with it. It was at that point that I learned that wasn’t the case. At least with all of his google files, and any email he sent over another AOL account going back five years.
I figured that made sense. Ofcourse shady people will try to cover their digital tracks.
Sounds like a reminder to not delete things you may need later regardless of where it is stored.
Yes, basicly
I don’t mean to be rude but why on earth would someone think data in the cloud cannot be deleted? This is not even something that I have seen remotely advertised or something like that so I don’t get where it’s coming from? Especially when the person is working in IT …
Its not that I assuming that it couldn't be deleted. I just had the assumtion in the back og my head that google had all the backups