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You aren't required to make recordings. But if you made a recording, then you can't slate it for deletion. By disabling history, they're setting it up so records are deleted after 24 hours, instead of kept indefinitely.

In the court's eyes, it's analogous to writing notes to each other, only to burn them the next day.

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> routinely opted to move from history-on rooms to history-off Chats to hold sensitive conversations

The way this is worded there's no record, so there's no "slated for deletion"?

I guess the question becomes, if it exists inside computer memory, is that legally equivalent to "writing down piece of paper" and thusly is considered destroying evidence?

If I write something in disappearing ink (let's say it perfectly disappears), it's not destroying evidence? is it?

There is a record. It exists for 24 hours. It’s not in just your local computer’s memory. It’s in the cloud, and you can see that history on any of your devices.

> It’s in the cloud, and you can see that history on any of your devices.

For argument's sake, let's say it's not. It's a tunneled connection and all stops in between are only acting as relays.

Is it still wiping it then if it only exists in memory and then gets garbage collected? is that destroying evidence?... maybe...?

I think that would probably be ok, same as if it was a phone call.

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