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Gmail is required by law to really delete things the user deletes. There are guarantees around how quickly it will be done.

• joecool1029 5y ago
  > Gmail is required by law to really delete things the user deletes. This is not universally the case and the opposite is actually stated in their privacy policy and data retention agreements as it relates to financial transaction information (which likely needs to be retained for tax purposes). While Google likely pays it safe and complies mostly with CCPA/GDPR 'rights to be forgotten' for the rest of the US, and a good chunk of the world there's no legal requirement outside of the contractual agreements provided in paid Workspaces on when they need to purge this data. Current privacy policy: https://www.gstatic.com/policies/privacy/pdf/20210204/3jla0xz1/google_privacy_policy_en_us.pdf https://www.gstatic.com/policies/privacy/pdf/20210204/3jla0x... Data retention policy: https://policies.google.com/technologies/retention https://policies.google.com/technologies/retention