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Google to delete inactive Gmail accounts by December 1

Google to delete inactive Gmail accounts by December 1 1

American multinational technology company Google has announced that it will begin purging inactive accounts by December 1, 2023. 

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They announced this in a blog post where they mentioned that inactive accounts are those the user has not logged in for two years.

“Google products reserve the right to delete your data when your account has not been used for a 2-year period.

“Due to this policy, December 1, 2023, is the earliest a Google Account will be deleted,” they wrote in the blog post.

Signing in, reading an email, sending an email, watching a video on YouTube, installing an application, using the search engine, and sharing photos with a Google account all count as activities.

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They also mentioned that the policy applies to personal accounts.

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