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Re:How to Set Your Google Data to Self-Destruct by acollins1331 on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @07:28AM (#21451752)
Does anyone have any insight on what actually happens to this data? Is it really deleted or just stored in a warehouse somewhere inaccessible to me but accessible to some snooping government or hacker?
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Re:How to Set Your Google Data to Self-Destruct by mda on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @08:10AM (#21451996)
Many time discussed before on HN with some input by Google SREs. It is totally deleted (with some delay because of backups)

https://policies.google.com/technologies/retention?hl=en

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Re:How to Set Your Google Data to Self-Destruct by jedimastert on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @08:48AM (#21452285)
If Google didn't want to delete your data, they wouldn't lie about it, they just wouldn't give you the option.
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