Three advocacy groups are trying to amp up the pressure on Google for allegedly destroying company records. The American Economic Liberties Project, Check My Ads, and the Tech Oversight Project are urging the State Bar of California to investigate Kent Walker, Google’s President of Global Affairs and a member of the Bar. They claim Walker “coached” the company “to engage in widespread and illegal destruction of records relevant to multiple ongoing federal trials.”

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“At minimum, Mr. Walker’s failure to ‘take affirmative steps to preserve and safeguard relevant evidence’ is conduct unbecoming of an attorney licensed by the California State Bar,” says the letter. “The behavior is plainly unethical and violates both California State Law and Walker’s ethical obligations as a member of the California State Bar.”

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