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CTOnews.com, Feb. 24-according to Reuters, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a court document released in federal court in Washington, D.C. On Thursday that Google failed to block a policy that allows employees' chat records to be deleted automatically and permanently.

A lawyer for the US Department of Justice said Google had destroyed its internal communications records, so he asked a federal judge to sanction Google as part of the government's antitrust case against its search business. The Justice Department asked the court to hold hearings and weigh appropriate sanctions.

Google said in a statement on Thursday that it had "strongly" refuted the DoJ's allegations. A spokesman said: "our team has been seriously responding to inquiries and lawsuits for many years." Google said it had "produced more than 4 million documents in this case alone and provided millions of documents to regulators around the world."

Google assured lawyers at the U.S. Department of Justice that it would keep all records from November 2019, according to court documents unsealed on February 10 by Tuyuan Pexels on Thursday. But in practice, Google employees use "unrecorded" chats to discuss business and litigation, the Justice Department said. Google Ring chat is a chat platform that allows users to decide whether to keep or delete records.

"over the years, Google employees have deliberately shifted their conversations from email to chat, sometimes explicitly asking for the closure of historical records," lawyers from the US Department of Justice said in the filing. "Google deliberately sabotaged employee chat records and repeatedly disclosed misleading information to the US government, in violation of federal litigation rules."

The Justice Department asked US District Judge Amit Mehta to hold an evidentiary hearing on Google's deletion of chat records and impose sanctions on the company in a trial scheduled for autumn.

Google has denied allegations that it abused its power in the Internet search market. Since then, the Justice Department's application for sanctions marks at least the second time the government has tried to punish Google. (CTOnews.com note: the DoJ also accused Google last year of concealing internal documents from antitrust investigators, claiming they were protected by attorney-client privileges, a charge Google denies.)

It is reported that in April 2022, the judge refused to sanction Google's actions before the start of litigation in 2020. The case will be heard in September. The case was handled by the United States District Court of the District of Columbia, numbered 1:20-cv-03010-APM.

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