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Re:“My Google account got suspended because of NewPipe” by mantap on Monday October 14, 2019 @09:41AM (#21248111)
If you live in the EU you could threaten them with GDPR, also you have a right to not have decisions made by algorithms without recourse. If you live in US you are pretty much fucked.
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Re:“My Google account got suspended because of NewPipe” by londons_explore on Monday October 14, 2019 @10:13AM (#21248465)
GDPR requires them to answer your request within 30 days. They are allowed to give you your data as it appears when they process your request.

Google's policies, as required by their privacy policy, are to delete all data associated with a suspended account in 30 days.

That means any GDPR request submitted after the account is suspended will be responded to on the 30th day, and the response will be "we hold no data about that account".

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Re:“My Google account got suspended because of NewPipe” by pjc50 on Monday October 14, 2019 @10:28AM (#21248631)
That doesn't sound like it would survive a fight with an Information Commissioner.
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Re:“My Google account got suspended because of NewPipe” by arpa on Monday October 14, 2019 @12:24PM (#21249968)
Note to self: bombard google with GDPR requests so i have monthly backups of my data.
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Re:“My Google account got suspended because of NewPipe” by esprehn on Monday October 14, 2019 @01:01PM (#21250342)
Joking aside: You can schedule automated backups every other month using Google Takeout.
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Re:“My Google account got suspended because of NewPipe” by cbolton on Monday October 14, 2019 @01:26PM (#21250633)
By scheduling you mean schedule a reminder to do it by hand?
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Re:“My Google account got suspended because of NewPipe” by esprehn on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @01:45PM (#21261379)
No, it actually supports automatic backup and can also upload to third party services like Dropbox.
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Re:“My Google account got suspended because of NewPipe” by londons_explore on Monday October 14, 2019 @05:12PM (#21252967)
There is an explicit exception to the GDPR for duplicate/unreasonable requests.
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Re:“My Google account got suspended because of NewPipe” by dannyw on Monday October 14, 2019 @09:32PM (#21254763)
It could be arguable whether monthly data requests are duplicate or unreasonable though. Anything more frequently, sure, but 1 month?
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