Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images stored in Google Photos

Re:Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images stored ... by hezralig on Sunday September 25, 2022 @03:08PM (#32974861)

I hate to tell you this but many people have been locked out of their Google Accounts despite knowing the correct username/password combination. Their security policies and ML algo locks accounts and requires 2FA to be used from time to time. How confident are you that in your passing, your next of kin will be able to get into that account if 2FA or backup codes are inaccessible?

Given their is no real customer service team that handles their free tier accounts, I am personally reluctant to assume my Gdrive data will be salvageable.

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Re:Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images stored ... by debaserab2 on Sunday September 25, 2022 @03:39PM (#32975183)

According to the Google Inactive Account support page, they aren't actually assuming the account, they're just getting access to the data. So, presumably, they'd just download the data and that would be it.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3036546?hl=en

(That's not to say there aren't other concerning reasons why that data may not be accessible.)

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Re:Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images stored ... by hezralig on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @03:31AM (#32992459)

That is lovely to know about. I was only aware of the dead mans switch feature which deletes data after a period of time.

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