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To collect ESI held within Slack, Slack has created an easy way for users, supervisors, and legal teams to extract data held within its platform. To excise the company’s data, Slack has built in a feature that allows the administrator of the account or an individual user to download its content via JSON files. The JSON format file is similar to .xml and looks like a .csv file, but instead of being separated by commas, the data is separated by colons and organized by brackets. Each conversation thread is exported into folders and subsequently into individual JSON files for each day of the conversation.
There are several ways to view the data exported into a JSON file, if you aren’t a computer programmer familiar with JSON. You can review JSON files in your basic Word Pad program that is installed onto all computers for a basic readout of the company’s communications.
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