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.
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_number8_@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 7 months ago
Gregorech@lemmy.world 7 months ago
So dead people mostly.
gian@lemmy.grys.it 7 months ago
If you don’t care to login in two years, maybe the memories are not that irreplacable…
DmMacniel@feddit.de 7 months ago
Your email account isn’t a backup store.
LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Wahhhhhhhhhhh
Zeroxxx@lemmy.my.id 7 months ago
Are you Google shareholder? Tell them.
nyctre@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m all for bashing them for their shitty practices, but let’s be honest here. If you care about your memories, all you have to do is login once and they’re safe. If that’s unreasonable, I think that’s a you problem.
T156@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s also Google. You probably shouldn’t put anything on it that you’re not expecting to go away in a few years when the service shuts down.
At the very least, have a spare copy somewhere that isn’t likely to get wiped out.
LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The never just deleted data without a plan for you to download it. Your photos aren’t going anywhere. If by some curve Google goes out of business you’ll have ample time to download them.
Unless your saving your own shit on multiple disks and putting copies of shit in multiple places, Google photos is probably the safest spot on the planet for them.
theherk@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You make a funny point. killedbygoogle.com
But GMail isn’t going anywhere. There are surely very few more valuable places to harvest user data than reading all their emails.
Still big agree. Have a backup. Don’t trust corporations.
CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Mail likely isn’t going anywhere. A lot of corporations rely on Google workspace.