Google warns it will delete millions of Gmail accounts in December

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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.

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Good, these companies hoard data for far too long

They will delete the account, not the data.

"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

Can't they delete the contents of an account after backing it up to some server somewhere that only they have access to?

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.

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...