{"id":6826,"date":"2023-11-17T11:42:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T11:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=6826"},"modified":"2023-11-17T11:42:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T11:42:27","slug":"google-to-erase-dormant-gmail-accounts-starting-december-1-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/11\/17\/google-to-erase-dormant-gmail-accounts-starting-december-1-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to Erase Dormant Gmail Accounts Starting December 1, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has revealed plans to permanently delete inactive Gmail accounts starting from December 1, according to a blog post. An account is considered inactive if the user has not logged in or engaged in any activity for a period of two years.<\/p>\n<p>This policy, applicable to personal accounts, allows Google to delete data from accounts that have been inactive for the specified duration.<\/p>\n<p>The blog post states, &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Google defines activities that prevent an account from being deemed inactive as signing in, using Google Drive, reading or sending an email, watching a YouTube video, downloading an app, and searching and sharing photos. Users are advised to ensure activity in their accounts to prevent deletion under this policy.<br \/>\n<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_231117_123244_532.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has revealed plans to permanently delete inactive Gmail accounts starting from December 1, according to a blog post. An account is considered inactive if the user has not logged in or engaged in any activity for a period of two years. This policy, applicable to personal accounts, allows Google to delete data from accounts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":6827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,180,249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-technology","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6826"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6831,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826\/revisions\/6831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}