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Re:Best practices for user account, authorization and passwo... by kyrra on Saturday February 03, 2018 @08:14PM (#16300677)
(I work for Google, opinions are my own)

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32046?hl=en

Google does let you delete your account. But it can take a few weeks for all the data to be really deleted (there is a recovery period, then some lag to delete everything).

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Re:Best practices for user account, authorization and passwo... by TheAceOfHearts on Saturday February 03, 2018 @08:19PM (#16300692)
Doesn't Google have tons of old backups in cold storage? Are those old database records also cleaned up?
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Re:Best practices for user account, authorization and passwo... by kyrra on Saturday February 03, 2018 @09:39PM (#16300975)
I can't say what or whatnot Google does. Ask customer support on that.

But do know that GDPR will require this for the EU. https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/

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Re:Best practices for user account, authorization and passwo... by aiiane on Saturday February 03, 2018 @11:15PM (#16301300)
It takes longer for data to get purged out of backups than it does for the live data stores, but Google does clean up backups for deleted account data.
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