Google’s version of spring cleaning apparently involves wiping away the entirety of its social media platform. The company’s Google Plus will officially be no more come April in the wake of yet another data leak that impacted 52.5 million users early last month.
The move puts a bit of a clock on attorneys and e-discovery professionals looking to salvage data from the platform that could be relevant to future litigation. Indeed, the impending closure illustrates just exactly how tricky taking responsibility for communications made on a third-party platform can be. And as a new generation of young, social media savvy employees continues to move up the ranks, companies and their lawyers may find themselves having to devote more time and resources to successfully identifying and locating every pertinent scrap of data before the ground shrinks beneath their feet.
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