Google employees’ attempts to hide messages from investigators might backfire

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Google employees liberally labeled their emails as “privileged and confidential” and spoke “off the record” over chat messages, even after being told to preserve their communications for investigators, lawyers for the Justice Department have told a Virginia court over the past couple of weeks.That strategy could backfire if the judge in Google’s second antitrust trial believes the company intentionally destroyed evidenc