A request to preliminarily stop Trump administration Cabinet members from using auto-deleting Signal messages and to recover messages that were already deleted was mostly denied by a federal court.
The lawsuit didn’t show that the agencies’ recordkeeping programs are inadequate, that the court can provide redress for already-deleted messages, or that record preservation is an available remedy, Chief Judge James E. Boasberg of the US District Court for the District of Columbia said June 20.
The lawsuit was filed following an Atlantic article revealing that its editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was added by mistake to the group Signal chat involving top ...
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