Topic: Phone hacking email deletion branded "storm in teacup"

[Simon]

The furore over deleted News International emails has been blown out of proportion, according to one email management expert.

The deletion of emails hit the headlines this week, with stories emerging from a phone hacking select committee hearing that showed News International had ordered more than 200,000 messages to be deleted.

The deletions emerged after Indian IT company HCL revealed it had been asked to delete internal emails on nine occasions between April 2010 and July 2011.

But according to Mimecast, the vast majority of the emails would have had no value to investigators and were computer-generated responses.

“The majority of the email deletions, some 200,000, were for things like delivery failure messages and would have had no forensic evidence whatsoever,” Barry Gill, enterprise consultant at Mimecast, told PC Pro.

Read more: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/369094/phone-hacking-email-deletion-branded-storm-in-teacup

[GillE]

How can he know that without knowing what was happening to News Corp's emails?  Why would someone ask an external consultant to intervene over a simple matter of worthless emails?  Sorry, but this smacks of shoddy journalism from pcpro.

[Clive]

With you all the way Gill. 

[Rik]

I thought the whole thing was about shoddy journalism?