Despite Google's recent change to policy about deleting accounts after 2 years of inactivity, their data retention policy has not changed, and according to the page, only the user can delete the account and its data themselves.

Hello, r/privacy.

I've recently discovered Google might be misleading their users into thinking accounts may be deleted if they're inactive for two (2) years with their new changes to policy concerning [inactive accounts.](https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/updating-our-inactive-account-policies/)

Despite this new policy, their page on data retention hasn't changed since the announcement, [“Information retained until you remove it”](https://policies.google.com/technologies/retention) to be specific, which states:

"***Information retained until you remove it***

*We offer a range of services that allow you to correct or delete data stored in …

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