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I've been locked out of 17 year old gmail account for awhile now because I refuse to sync my phone to it. I only want to login to delete the contents and deacti

by yucky 4y ago

I've been locked out of 17 year old gmail account for awhile now because I refuse to sync my phone to it. I only want to login to delete the contents and deactivate the account. It still forwards to my Thunderbird which is how I noticed Google stops dedicating spam protection to un-synced accounts (or something). So, they want me to go away, and I want to go away, but they won't let me go away.

danuker 4y ago
> to delete the contents and deactivate the account Are you in the EU? Google's DPO or your country's data protection authority might want to hear about it.
- jesprenj 4y ago
  Maybe he doesn't want to send them a copy of his national ID for the sake of privacy. Are privacy guidelines in EU countries so well defined that they take terms such as "password for an online service" into their vocabulary?
  - ashwoods 4y ago
    They might not explicitly, but you have the right to take any data you have or they might have on you of any service, no matter if you have an account or not: aka right of access. I don’t know if it has been used this way, but it might be a possibility.
- yucky 4y ago
  Nope, I'm in the US and here in the US Google acts as an extension of our intelligence agencies so we have no recourse. They're effectively part of the surveillance state, thus untouchable.
jesprenj 4y ago
In ~2014 when I didn't have a phone yet (being a child) they deleted my account on account of not having a phone number associated for some weeks. Even though postfix brings me headaches sometimes, seeing issues people have with google seems as setting it up was a step in the right direction.
Double_a_92 4y ago
> Google stops dedicating spam protection to un-synced accounts The spam filter just broke at some time in the last year. I get 1-2 obvious trash spam in my inbox every day. Literally things with a subject like "You _WON_ !! ** our give_away!"
bryan0 4y ago
> I noticed Google stops dedicating spam protection to un-synced accounts (or something). It’s not just you. Their spam filtering has been broken in general for a while now. Not sure what’s going on. I wonder if the volume of spam has just hit some critical threshold where it costs too much to process every incoming message.

by yucky 4y ago

danuker 4y ago

> to delete the contents and deactivate the account Are you in the EU? Google's DPO or your country's data protection authority might want to hear about it.

jesprenj 4y ago
Maybe he doesn't want to send them a copy of his national ID for the sake of privacy. Are privacy guidelines in EU countries so well defined that they take terms such as "password for an online service" into their vocabulary?
- ashwoods 4y ago
  They might not explicitly, but you have the right to take any data you have or they might have on you of any service, no matter if you have an account or not: aka right of access. I don’t know if it has been used this way, but it might be a possibility.
yucky 4y ago
Nope, I'm in the US and here in the US Google acts as an extension of our intelligence agencies so we have no recourse. They're effectively part of the surveillance state, thus untouchable.

jesprenj 4y ago

In ~2014 when I didn't have a phone yet (being a child) they deleted my account on account of not having a phone number associated for some weeks. Even though postfix brings me headaches sometimes, seeing issues people have with google seems as setting it up was a step in the right direction.

Double_a_92 4y ago

> Google stops dedicating spam protection to un-synced accounts The spam filter just broke at some time in the last year. I get 1-2 obvious trash spam in my inbox every day. Literally things with a subject like "You _WON_ !! ** our give_away!"

bryan0 4y ago

> I noticed Google stops dedicating spam protection to un-synced accounts (or something). It’s not just you. Their spam filtering has been broken in general for a while now. Not sure what’s going on. I wonder if the volume of spam has just hit some critical threshold where it costs too much to process every incoming message.