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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.

  • morras@jlai.luEnglish
    821·
    1 year ago

    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.

        • Contend6248@feddit.deEnglish
          242·
          1 year ago

          “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,” tech giant Google confirmed in a post on its blog.

          Thanks GDPR

        • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          92·
          1 year ago

          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.

          • mindlight@lemm.eeEnglish
            21·
            1 year ago

            If they anonymize the data so that it’s no longer possible to identify you GDPR allows them to keep the data.

            Wasting money keeping the emails that they don’t need would be cartoon villain level of stupid.

            Yeah… Because there is no money in machine learning and it will never benefit from text written by humans…