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Google will be deleting inactive google accounts together with all data on them starting December 1, 2023 (support.google.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Martineski@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Inactive Google Account Policy

A Google Account gives you Google-wide access to most Google products, such as Google Ads, Gmail, and YouTube, using the same username and password.

An inactive Google Account is an account that has not been used within a 2-year period. Google reserves the right to delete an inactive Google Account and its activity and data if you are inactive across Google for at least two years.

Google also reserves the right to delete data in a product if you are inactive in that product for at least two years. This is determined based on each product's inactivity policies.

How Google defines activity

A Google Account that is in use is considered active. Activity might include these actions you take when you sign in or while you’re signed in to your Google Account:

Reading or sending an email

Using Google Drive

Watching a YouTube video

Sharing a photo

Downloading an app

Using Google Search

Using Sign in with Google to sign in to a third-party app or service

Google Account activity is demonstrated by account and not by device. You can take actions on any surface where you’re signed in to your Google Account, for example, on your phone.

If you have more than one Google Account set up on your device, you’ll want to make sure each account is used within a 2-year period.

What happens when your Google Account is inactive

When your Google Account has not been used within a 2-year period, your Google Account, that is then deemed inactive, and all of its content and data may be deleted. Before this happens, Google will give you an opportunity to take an action in your account by:

Sending email notifications to your Google Account

Sending notifications to your recovery email, if any exists

Google products reserve the right to delete your data when your account has not been used within that product for a 2-year period.

December 1, 2023 is the earliest a Google Account will be deleted due to this policy.

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[–] ShadowRunner@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago

I gave up completely on Google accounts after they kept flagging make-believe security issues and made it near impossible to verify that it's yours.

Even if you have a secondary email configured (and this would be what it's for) - but oh, no, that's still not good enough for them.

Then they pulled the utter bullshit of requiring your phone number "so they can make sure it's you" - but since there was never a phone number associated with the account, this is clearly nothing more than a data grab so they can associate real identities with their accounts.

That was the last straw for me, and I decided that their service was utter garbage, completely unreliable, and not worth using anymore.