Governor’s office is “stonewalling” lawsuit over Confide use, lawyer tells judge

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On Wednesday morning at 9am local time, a county judge in Missouri is set to hold a court hearing by phone in what is believed to be the first state-level lawsuit involving the use of an ephemeral messaging app. Lawyers in an ongoing lawsuit are battling out whether now-former Governor Eric Greitens’ use of Confide ran afoul of state transparency laws. Confide, like Signal and other popular encrypted-messaging apps, auto-deletes messages after a certain period of time, making automated record-keeping of those messages very difficult, if not impossible. Two days ago, Mark Pedroli filed a new motion, asking Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem to force the governor’s office and the custodian of records to formally comply with his own order to disclose numerous details, including how many of the then-governor’s staff used the Confide app. [...]

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