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Originally Posted by Halx
Would it be illegal for me to delete these documents?
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You stated in the thread title that this is a question of business ethics, not business law.
Legally, you
might have the right to delete them. It depends on the conditions of the documents' creation and any or all agreements with the company to which the documents pertain. It also depends on any or all input the others may have had to the documents in question. I don't really know about the laws regulating these things.
Ethically, you shouldn't delete them if others use them as resources to help them do their jobs. You should never burn your bridges in business because you never know who might hire you or give you a reference down the road. Hindering others from doing their job is never the right thing to do unless there is a legal or moral issue at stake. Deleting documents out of spite, I would say, is generally unethical.