#REMOTE US PARANOID PROFESSIONAL#
This whole scandal has blown up because the authorities are concerned about record keeping.Įlsewhere, bankers who are (still) applying for jobs in crypto trading have got more or less used to having to compete against college dropouts, professional video gamers and literal high school students. You can’t delete everyone else’s half of the conversations – all you can do is make yourself look really suspicious, while simultaneously depriving yourself of any of the evidence you might need to prove your innocence.
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It didn’t work for Rebekah Vardy and it won’t work for you. Or even accidentally allow their phone to fall into a body of water. Given this, many bankers – particularly those who weren’t quite important enough to be called in for the first wave of phone checks, but who might reasonably anticipate being in the second – might be tempted to delete their messages.
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All manner of interpersonal hand grenades might be about to fly. Something as simple as a WhatsApp arranging a lunch could be highly embarrassing if it was shown to a colleague who was intentionally NFI. Even with the best of intentions, an outside investigator who doesn’t know the context or the people involved can’t always judge what a message really meant. On the other hand, industry paranoia isn’t wholly unjustified. For what it’s worth, the Order published in the JPMorgan settlement did respect this principle – despite what was probably sore temptation, the SEC didn’t include excerpts of the juiciest conversations. There are apparently safeguards to protect privacy, and they have apparently promised that the threshold for “work related” messages will not include conversations between friends in which a bit of trash-talking or blowing off steam about management (or clients?) is indulged in.
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The SEC have tried to provide some degree of reassurance. In many cases, it seems that they didn’t have separate phones for work and their personal life, and so are now in a position previously only enjoyed by people under surveillance in Eastern Germany the government has got access to their entire social life and is looking through it for evidence of crimes. Bankers under investigation are not, however, taking it well.