Alphabet CEO, in Play store trial, acknowledges some materials not retained

FILE PHOTO: Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, reacts during a meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and senior officials and CEOs of American and Indian companies in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., June 23, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai acknowledged in federal court on Tuesday that he sometimes marked documents as "privileged" and never turned off a setting that caused internal chats to delete automatically after one day.

Pichai was in court in San Francisco to defend Alphabet's Google from a lawsuit by Epic Games that alleges its app store policies amount to an illegal monopoly and have caused consumers to pay artificially high prices.