The company announced that at the end of the year it will begin to delete accounts that have not had activity in the last two years. What will be the exceptions?
By iProfessional
17/05/2023 – 13,28hs
Google has announced that at the end of this year it will begin delete all those accounts that register an inactivity of at least two years, a measure that It will not affect companies or educational institutions.
The company has carried out maintenance tasks to reinforce the security of its usersassuring that it has “invested in technology and tools” to protect them from security threats, such as ‘spam’ or ‘ransomware’, as explained in a statement.
Despite this, he considers that if an account has not been used for a long period of time, it is more likely to be compromisedsince it is possible that their owners have not installed two-factor authentication.
Moreover, after carrying out an internal analysis, it has concluded that the abandoned accounts are “at least ten times less likely than active accounts to have two-step verification set up”as can be read in this statement.
Google will remove abandoned accounts by the end of the year
To prevent these accounts from being compromised, it has announced a update your usage policies and has commented that from the end of this 2023 it will be able to delete those Google accounts that have not been used or that have not registered a login during the last two years.
This measure -which will not affect the accounts of organizations or educational institutions- will affect users of personal accounts in Google Workspace services, that is, Gmail, Docs, Drive, Meet, Calendar; as well as YouTube and Google Photos.
The company has carried out maintenance tasks to reinforce the security of its users
In any case, Google has commented that it is “going to roll this out slowly and carefully, well in advance.” and that it will take a phased approach, starting with those that have been created and are no longer used.
He has also said that Before deleting an account, you will send several notifications during the months leading up to the deletionboth to your access email and recovery email.
On the other hand, it has clarified that, to maintain an active Google account, it is only necessary to have recently logged in or to have registered some type of activitysuch as reading or sending an email, using Google Drive, watching a YouTube video, or downloading an app through Google Play.
An account from which a query has been made through your Browser or logged in with Google to log in to another third-party application or service will also be considered active.
