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How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment

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154 points tysone | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 11:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.229s | source
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lxgr ◴[20 Nov 24 23:48 UTC] No.42199412[source]▶
> put “attorney-client privileged” on documents and to always add a Google lawyer to the list of recipients, even if no legal questions were involved and the lawyer never responded

Wow. One of the very first things I learned when onboarding to a US company is that the client-attorney privilege does not work like that at all.

“Privileged and confidential” is not a legal shibboleth (especially not when used so incorrectly).

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1. eftychis ◴[21 Nov 24 00:05 UTC] No.42199540[source]▶
Yes, and it can actually backfire, by opening the floodgates to all communications. (As you lose all credibility after some point.) You are just betting nobody is going to keep digging.