• blaine@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      If you read it closely, they say they “reserve the right to” delete the accounts/data after 2 years of inactivity. They don’t actually say they will.

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        1 year ago

        ohhh now this makes more sense than the misleading headline. they’re just saying "we wanna keep your data, but we also don’t wanna be liable in case us having your data ever becomes a problem to us, so we reserve the right to get rid of it whenever we want for no reason and claim we never had it in the first place

      • Martineski@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Oh, they said that they will:

        We are going to roll this out slowly and carefully, with plenty of notice:

        • While the policy takes effect today, it will not immediately impact users with an inactive account — the earliest we will begin deleting accounts is December 2023.
        • We will take a phased approach, starting with accounts that were created and never used again.
        • Before deleting an account, we will send multiple notifications over the months leading up to deletion, to both the account email address and the recovery email (if one has been provided).

        Source: https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/updating-our-inactive-account-policies/