Psystar Case Reveals Poor Email Archiving At Apple

Ian Lamont writes "Buried in the court filings of the recently concluded Psystar antitrust suit against Apple is a document that discussed Apple's corporate policy regarding employee email. Apparently, Apple has no company-wide policy for archiving, saving, or deleting email. This could potentially run afoul of e-discovery requirements, which have tripped up other companies that have been unable to produce emails and other electronic files in court. A lawyer quoted in the article (but not involved in the case) called Apple's retention policy 'negligent.' However, the issue did not help Psystar's lawsuit against Apple — a judge dismissed the case earlier this week."

Comments

This may be very bad for Intel in the intel vs amd

[Joe The Dragon]

This may be very bad for Intel in the intel vs amd case. As Intel may of give apple a unfair deal to keep amd off of apple systems.

Just like our President

[rastoboy29]

We live in an era where ensuring plausable deniability is somehow considered a good reason not to do email.  Who's surprised?

Hard to believe

[fortapocalypse]

Apple? No way. This is just a simplistic legal defense IMO.

Re:e-dicovery?

[trouser]

Where I work we have "No Pants Tuesday" and we all get drunk at lunch on Fridays and then wrestle naked in corridors and shit but we have no formal policy on the retention of email. Interesting.