Google warns it will delete millions of Gmail accounts in December::Google has confirmed that accounts will start being deleted next month unless users follow some simple advice.
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It misses the most important information: why.
The CNIL (French privacy regulator) slapped Discord in October last year because they never deleted accounts (hi GDPR).
Since then, all tech companies are hurriedly designing a plan to mass delete inactive accounts.
Good, these companies hoard data for far too long
They will delete the account, not the data.
Of course they will remove the data. If they kept the data while removing the users ability to delete it they would get a record breaking fine for Christmas.
Besides they don’t actually care about individual data after they finish processing it, they just care about the resulting aggregate data. Wasting money keeping the emails that they don’t need would be cartoon villain level of stupid.
Save you a click:
“If a Google Account has not been used or signed into for at least 2 years, we may delete the account and its contents – including content within Google Workspace (Gmail, Docs, Drive, Meet, Calendar) and Google Photos.”
