As of December 2023, Google accounts that are inactive for more than two years will be removedas released by the same company in an attempt to prevent security threats and computer attacks.
As he argues, this implementation is based on concerns related to web insecurity such as spam, phishing and account theft, the latter being the most vulnerable.
Once an account is compromised, it can be used for anything from identity theft to a vector of unwanted or even malicious content like spam.
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In this sense, those profiles or emails that have not logged in in at least the last 24 months, They will be deleted without the possibility of recovering the content that has been stored in them.
This measure not only removes mail from gmail; a Google profile provides access to all of the company’s products: Drive, Publisher, Maps, News, Photos, Docs, Spreadsheets, Hangouts, Classroom, Meet, YouTube, among others.
It should be noted that this change will only apply to personal Google accounts, so those of organizations such as schools or companies are excluded. If you have an inactive account with important documents or files, we recommend you to use it again so that it is not deleted.
Google joins other big tech companies whose policies have been changed to remove inactive Internet accounts. Last week, Twitter CEO Elon Musk claimed that he would delete inactive profiles from his network to free up abandoned handles.
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