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Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>Google accounts that had remained unused for two years would be deleted in December to prevent security threats including hacks. Alphabet Inc, the parent body of Google said it will delete the account and content across Google Workspace, which includes Gmail, Docs, Drive, Meet, and Calendar, as well as YouTube and Google Photos if the account had not been used or signed into for at least two years.<\/p>\n

It however states that the policy change applies to only personal Google Accounts and not to those for organizations like schools or businesses. In 2020, Google had said it would remove content stored in an inactive account, but not delete the account itself.<\/p>\n

Starting Tuesday, Google will send multiple notifications to the account email address and recovery mail of the inactive accounts before deletion. Last week, Elon Musk said Twitter would remove accounts that have been inactive for several years and archive them, saying that the action is \u201cimportant to free up abandoned handles.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Mauritius. Google accounts that had remained unused for two years would be deleted in December to prevent security threats including hacks. Alphabet Inc, the parent body of Google said it will delete the account and content across Google Workspace, which includes Gmail, Docs, Drive, Meet, and Calendar, as well as YouTube and Google […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":29960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[233,245,1863,241],"class_list":["post-29962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-miscellaneous","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-mauritius","tag-google","tag-mauritius"],"yoast_head":"\nInactive Gmail, YouTube and drive accounts to be deleted by Google - Mauritius<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Google accounts that had remained unused for two years would be deleted in December to prevent security threats includin ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/inactive-gmail-youtube-and-drive-accounts-to-be-deleted-by-google\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Inactive Gmail, YouTube and drive accounts to be deleted by Google\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Google accounts that had remained unused for two years would be deleted in December to prevent security threats includin ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/inactive-gmail-youtube-and-drive-accounts-to-be-deleted-by-google\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mauritius\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-05-25T14:26:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-05-25T14:35:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/sites\/61\/2023\/05\/sm_1685008998.142255.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"532\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/inactive-gmail-youtube-and-drive-accounts-to-be-deleted-by-google#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/inactive-gmail-youtube-and-drive-accounts-to-be-deleted-by-google\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Inactive Gmail, YouTube and drive accounts to be deleted by Google\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-05-25T14:26:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-05-25T14:35:25+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/inactive-gmail-youtube-and-drive-accounts-to-be-deleted-by-google\"},\"wordCount\":184,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/inactive-gmail-youtube-and-drive-accounts-to-be-deleted-by-google#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/sites\/61\/2023\/05\/sm_1685008998.142255.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Mauritius\",\"Google\",\"Mauritius\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"miscellaneous\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/inactive-gmail-youtube-and-drive-accounts-to-be-deleted-by-google#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/inactive-gmail-youtube-and-drive-accounts-to-be-deleted-by-google\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/inactive-gmail-youtube-and-drive-accounts-to-be-deleted-by-google\",\"name\":\"Inactive Gmail, YouTube and drive accounts to be deleted by Google - 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