{"id":36952,"date":"2023-11-16T18:22:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T18:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/alphabet-ceo-in-play-store-trial-acknowledges-some-materials-not-retained"},"modified":"2023-11-16T18:38:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T18:38:49","slug":"alphabet-ceo-in-play-store-trial-acknowledges-some-materials-not-retained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/alphabet-ceo-in-play-store-trial-acknowledges-some-materials-not-retained","title":{"rendered":"Alphabet CEO, in Play store trial, acknowledges some materials not retained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>In federal court on Tuesday, Alphabet CEO (GOOGL. O) Sundar Pichai acknowledged that he sometimes marked documents as \u201cprivileged\u201d and never turned off a setting that caused internal chats to automatically delete after one day.<\/p>\n<p>Pichai was in court in San Francisco to defend Alphabet\u2019s Google from a lawsuit by Epic Games that alleges its app store policies amount to an illegal monopoly and have caused consumers to pay artificially high prices.<\/p>\n<p>Attorneys for Epic Games, maker of the wildly popular \u201cFortnite\u201d game, appeared to be trying to establish that Pichai and Google were concealing sensitive communications that could later be used against it in a potential trial.<\/p>\n<p>Jurors were shown an internal Google document reminding employees that \u201canything you write can become subject to review in legal discovery\u201d as well as one of Pichai\u2019s chat histories where he requested that history be turned off, meaning messages would be erased.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI supported all recommendations from our legal and compliance team,\u201d Pichai said during roughly an hour of testimony led by Epic\u2019s lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>He largely stuck to one-word answers but was occasionally admonished by Epic Games\u2019 attorney for straying beyond simple answers. Pichai, in examination by a Google attorney, denied he had ever tried to keep any document hidden from a lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>He said he used the term \u201cprivileged\u201d on documents to indicate \u201cconfidential\u201d not necessarily subject to attorney-client privilege. Epic Games has alleged in its lawsuit that app store policies amount to an illegal monopoly and have caused consumers to pay artificially high prices.<\/p>\n<p>The company wants it to be easier for Google Play users to access third-party app stores and additional payment processors for in-app purchases. Google has said changing its systems would cause its Android-based app store to be less secure and damage its ability to compete with Apple (AAPL.<\/p>\n<p>O). Epic\u2019s similar lawsuit against Apple resulted in a ruling largely that was mostly favorable to Apple \u2013 both companies appealed to the U. S. 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S. government\u2019s allegations about its search dominance and is expected to have to defend itself at trial next year over its digital ads policies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\">Mauritius<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Mauritius. In federal court on Tuesday, Alphabet CEO (GOOGL. O) Sundar Pichai acknowledged that he sometimes marked documents as \u201cprivileged\u201d and never turned off a setting that caused internal chats to automatically delete after one day. 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