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After over 15 years, my Google account has been permanently disabled
- some_account99 6y agoIn the thread, the @google account replied with the suggestion of going through an appeal process but the user already apparently appealed and it was denied. it would be very interesting to learn what were the given reasons for its denial.
- Minor49er 6y agoA big problem with companies like Google is that they do not like to disclose their reasons for terminating or flagging accounts. It's probably a policy that's intended to stop people from figuring out what they watch for and gaming the system. But if the Twitter user legitimately did nothing wrong and really is out thousands of dollars, then he should seek legal council.
- rbecker 6y agoThat's conflating disclosing what evidence Google used to determine the offense, and what the offense even was. If someone was gaming the system, they'd already know which parts of the ToS they were breaking, so they'd gain no advantage from being informed of that again by Google.
- Minor49er 6y agoEven if they lost control of their account and didn't know it?
- 6510 6y agoHow compatible is this with GDPR? It simply states the company is to hand over all data linked to a person. The right to be informed The right of access The right to rectification The right to erasure The right to restrict processing The right to data portability The right to object Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling.
- president 6y agoAlong with any other accounts that use your disabled Gmail account as the linked email address.
- retrobox 6y agoEvery other day I seem to read stories about accounts people have lost access to with Google and very little support to fix it. Example from the other day, I noticed someone who lost access to their YouTube account but no real support to fix it. I'm dropping this here in case anyone from Google ever does read these discussions: https://twitter.com/MatRicardo/status/1318540789719486471 https://twitter.com/MatRicardo/status/1318540789719486471
- m-p-3 6y agoWe live in a dystopia, where a megacorporation can annihilate your virtual life in the blink of an eye without any real recourse.
- kilo_bravo_3 6y agoPlease help me understand. I'm like, 49% moron. Despite my moronicity all of my photos are on my hard drive, all of my emails are on my own hard drive, and all of my contacts and documents are on my own hard drive. Not only are they all on my own hard drive, they are on my hard drive AND on a NAS-- oh AND the NAS copies all of my important stuff and throws it into the cloud (which I pay for). So if Google (I don't use any Google products other than YouTube and search) deleted my account I would lose a grand total of 0 bytes of data. If I'm 49% moron and I realized over a decade ago that relying on Google to store your valuable data (I think it was the "for free" part that made me suspicious) was a bad idea how is it happening to all of these people who I presume are <49% moron?
- rurban 6y agoNightmare. But one day I lost my 2 Amazon accounts, when I talked to them to disable my duplicate account. Eventually they disabled both. First the wrong good one, then the bad one. Which was a godsend in hindsight. You always have to assume extreme stupidity.