I see that all the time when people haven't actually provided the requested info, whether a company or a local, state, or federal agency. It's often a form of BS.
Technically every DB entry could be considered a document, but if you haven't provided emails from the CEO, you haven't provided emails from the CEO.
Lawyers (or other parties engaged in litigation) will "overwhelm with kindness" in response to discovery requests by producing tremendous amounts of irrelevant material, often in cumbersome formats, in order to overwhelm opponents.
Or as I've commented in another thread earlier today: attention and time are the ultimate nonfungible resources, and distracting or delaying an apponent is a long-recognised basic tactic.
The parties settled and the documents were never touched.
Increased data privacy regulation could be an existential threat to Facebook's business model—but instead of trying to make a positive impression of itself by cooperating with lawmakers (and potentially helping to shape the regulation itself in the process), it misleads and stonewalls.[0]
What's Facebook's long-term plan here? Do they think they will be able to fend off governments forever and eventually become supranational?
[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-misled-parliament-on-d...
Try to imagine your whole identity being tied up in this massive company you made. He has no option but to fight as hard as he can, any talk of regulation is an existential threat to Mark himself.
He has never shown a shred of regret or pause about the past mistakes of the company, it has been full steam ahead ignore the haters at all costs since the Beacon fiasco. Nothing is going to change this company unless an external force comes in and makes the change happen in spite of Mark Zuckerberg.
No, but they can fight to delay the inevitable. Increased privacy rules hurts profits. Pushing back regulation by a year or two, or even a month or two, means keeping those profit going for a month or two. For an entity like facebook that could mean millions. Say a new privacy reg will require them spinning up a few hundred employees to manage the compliance project. Holding off on those hires saves more money than the legal fees spent avoiding regulators. Even when you know you will eventually have to do something unprofitable, every day you avoid having to do it is a win.
