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It Continues: Google Moves Forward with Deleting Inactive Accounts

This week, I received a notification from Google letting me know that one of my old test accounts is on the chopping block. According to the alert, the account hasn’t been used in over two years and is now scheduled for deletion under Google’s Inactive Account Policy . The account and all associated data will be permanently deleted, they warn, if I don’t act by October 15, 2025, just over si…
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It begins: Google retiring inactive accounts

Google first  warned earlier this year that they're going to retire accounts that haven't been accessed at all in the past two years. This affects Gmail accounts -- if nobody's home, no emails have been read, nothing's going on, Google is now likely to shut dow…