GM Skewered For Abusing A Common Data Management Practice

Called “information life-cycle management” at GM, it was essentially a version of what most companies do to reduce the vast store of communications and other data that accumulates on computers. But according to a New York Times article, which cites sharp criticism of the company’s legal department from a variety of sources, information management at GM became part of a studied effort to avoid exposing a dangerous product defect to the scrutiny of the public and plaintiffs.