Google sanctioned for destroying evidence in antitrust case.

A US federal judge has ruled that Google intentionally destroyed evidence and must be sanctioned in a multi-district antitrust case. The judge found that Google provided false information to the court and plaintiffs about the auto-deletion practices it uses for internal chats. Google deletes chat messages every 24 hours unless the "history-on" setting is enabled by individual document custodians. The case is over the Google Play Store app distribution model, with plaintiffs alleging that "Google illegally monopolized the Android app distribution market by engaging in exclusionary conduct, which has harmed the different plaintiff groups in various ways."