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Sure, but I’m right now paying for 1TB space, and I can easily forget for example if a credit card expires. Google makes enough money from my subscriptions to a
by xiphias2 6y ago
Sure, but I’m right now paying for 1TB space, and I can easily forget for example if a credit card expires. Google makes enough money from my subscriptions to at least write my data to a tape when I stop paying, so that I can access it again even 10 years later when I start paying again.
- Thaxll 6y agoForget and never logged into an account for 2 years? If you don't need to log into an email account for 2 years you don't need the data.
- usr1106 6y agoNot true. You might need all kind of information years later. Bills, account statements and then of course photos. Recently had to arrange a funeral and noted we didn't have a photo of the deceased. Of course many had been taken years ago, but we couldn't find any.
- mattmanser 6y agoIsn't the opposite also true, that some people would expect them to delete that data? Seems a damned if you do, damned if you don't scenario. Plus, unless that was part of the contract, why do you expect it? They're a company, you get what you pay for.
- tomhoward 6y agoThere's no way they can justify devoting resources (i.e., staff, machines, tapes, storage space) and maintaining processes to do this when they're delivering services for billions of users, especially given that, as someone else has said, for privacy reasons people would assume/expect that expired data is automatically deleted.