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  • I'm loving that what used to be undocumented face to face conversations that could easily be denied as ever having taken place are now fully discoverable thanks to government by Whatsap.

    Sky News had a recently retired after a 30 year career at the Foreign Office civil servant who was wondering why no-one remembered the "never write anything down you wouldn't want to see on the front page of the Daily Mail" advice he was given at the start of his career.

  • Exactly. If the covid enquiry achieves anything it will be that these conversations go back to happening in a non dredgeable way.

    I'm a civil servant - all the juicy chat happens on Teams - which deletes after 5 days.

  • Oh really? NHS Teams chats do not delete at all and we are all under the same instance of it.

  • It deletes from your end…

  • I'm a civil servant - all the juicy chat happens on Teams - which deletes after 5 days.

    Is it gone for ever? Presumably it's archived somewhere. Our chat (corporate) has to be kept for n-number of years for audits

  • It absolutely does not delete!

    Its been used to provide evidence in grievances etc at work and that was way, way over 5 days.

  • It will be archived and fully discoverable I suspect (one of the services which the company I work for provides).

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