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Google Will Mass Delete Old Gmail And Photos Content Next Week
(www.forbes.com)
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this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2023
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don't care that it's for inactive accounts, this is a disgusting purge of culture. spam email is one thing but imagine all the literal irreplaceable memories stored. don't give a shit about their storage costs, it's google. sort it the fuck out.
edit lol keep weeping for a trillion dollar company. i don't use this garbage, i have no files i'm losing.
The EU is forcing them to do this as part of the GDPR. Google isn't allowed to store personal data for longer than is required, and an account that's been inactive for 2 years is very likely an account that will never be accessed again. Therefore, Google has no legitimate purpose to store that data, ergo they must delete it.
So dead people mostly.