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Google Will Mass Delete Old Gmail And Photos Content Next Week (www.forbes.com)
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Google Will Mass Delete Old Gmail And Photos Content Next Week::Google will start mass deleting inactive Photos and Gmail accounts on December 1st.

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[โ€“] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] Gregorech@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

So dead people mostly.