>But we are talking about messaging which has greatly displaced face to face conversation while email is flat or shrinking over the same time period.
That's irrelevant, IMHO.
If an exchange is recorded, then it's fair game for legal discovery.
I'll give you some (modified[0]) 25+ year-old advice that's just as relevant today to messaging/collaboration apps as it was to email: If you wouldn't want to see it on the front page of the NYT/WaPo/FoxNews/HN/Reddit/Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/tiktok/BBC/Deutsche Welle/YouTube/etc., then don't put it in any recorded form.
And that goes triple for anything shared on platforms you don't own and physically control -- especially those owned/controlled by your employer.
You might just as well just wear a GoPro 24/7 and livestream the feed everywhere.
I'd add that in a professional setting, anything that might even be tangentially related might well be subject to discovery in the event of a lawsuit.
Don't like it? Get the laws changed. And good luck with that. You're gonna need it.
[0] The original advice referenced "local newspapers" and email, but since the former are mostly gone and (at least you claim it's so) "email is flat or shrinking", I thought I'd update it for you.
> If you wouldn't want to see it on the front page of the NYT/WaPo/FoxNews/HN/Reddit/Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/tiktok/BBC/Deutsche Welle/YouTube/etc., then don't put it in any recorded form.
Indeed, and 25 years ago the balance of communication was significantly less recorded, was the point of the story.
That's irrelevant, IMHO.
If an exchange is recorded, then it's fair game for legal discovery.
I'll give you some (modified[0]) 25+ year-old advice that's just as relevant today to messaging/collaboration apps as it was to email: If you wouldn't want to see it on the front page of the NYT/WaPo/FoxNews/HN/Reddit/Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/tiktok/BBC/Deutsche Welle/YouTube/etc., then don't put it in any recorded form.
And that goes triple for anything shared on platforms you don't own and physically control -- especially those owned/controlled by your employer.
You might just as well just wear a GoPro 24/7 and livestream the feed everywhere.
I'd add that in a professional setting, anything that might even be tangentially related might well be subject to discovery in the event of a lawsuit.
Don't like it? Get the laws changed. And good luck with that. You're gonna need it.
[0] The original advice referenced "local newspapers" and email, but since the former are mostly gone and (at least you claim it's so) "email is flat or shrinking", I thought I'd update it for you.
Edit: Fixed typo.