My Hotmail accounts got deleted in under three months of not logging in, I think that was around 2004-5 when I first got Gmail. So much of my personal history is gone and it's a shame. I would love to see some of my old correspondences. I was such a different person then.
this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2023
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I completely agree with you, I lost my original yahoo account right around that time and i think about it pretty regularly, i just want to see what was in there one more time.
May be because, the Google can't even steal data from this accounts anymore...
They can steal the data and cross reference it, which is why they kept it for so long. Deleting old data, whose user consent is dubious at best is a good thing. I wonder if they are doing it for cost savings or because they are worried with legal issues over keeping data the users forgot about forever, because it wasn't because they care about privacy for sure.
This for personal accounts right? Or are they thinking of workspace accounts as well?
Business accounts will not be affected.
Have thwy said if they plan to warn specific people in advance, or will they just kill it and surprise you when you decide to go to youtube one day?
They’ll probably warn you but if you don’t use Gmail on that account then you won’t see it unless you forward it.
From the description:
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
It says at the end that they will send emails to the account and to the recovery email. Seems reasonable.
It’s in the bottom part of the text: they will send an email to the account itself and to recovery email addresses.
I won't be too affected by this as I already had my account set to delete after 1.5 years of inactivity. If I can't log into my emails for almost 2 years, it probably has no reason to exist anymore..