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Sundar Pichai

CEO, Alphabet & Google

Pichai has led Alphabet through sweeping AI advancements and the largest antitrust trials in a generation. His unsealed trial exhibits in US v. Google revealed the company’s internal communication hygiene protocols, including instructions to turn chat history off and label business memos as legal privilege.

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history-offtech-labor·2021 / unsealed 2023

Can we change the setting of this group to history off please?

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Public RegisterOctober 2023

Sundar Pichai

CEO, Alphabet and Google · US v. Google Antitrust Trial Sworn Testimony

“Google fosters an open culture of discussion. We take document retention and legal compliance seriously across all executive communications.”
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Private ArtifactOctober 12, 2021

Sundar Pichai to Google Leadership

executive communications · Internal email entered into DOJ trial evidence

“Also can we change the setting of this group to history off please.”
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The Split:While Google proclaimed compliance and transparency in antitrust proceedings, CEO Sundar Pichai explicitly instructed colleagues in writing to toggle their executive group chat to history off to prevent creating discoverable records.
The Tell:When an executive abruptly interrupts a substantive business thread to request history off or take it to Signal, the preference falsification is operating in real time.
Pipe: courtEntered into evidence by the US Department of Justice in US v. Google.