Irony in Google's 2-year inactive account deletion policy
Google has announced that inactive (personal) accounts will be deleted,
along with all of their data, after 2 years of inactivity, and a number
of emailed warnings. They point out that inactive accounts are less likely
to be protected by 2-factor authentication and more likely to be used
for spam and phishing.
There are a number of serious issues in this, but one irony pops to mind
instantly. An enormous amount of outbound spam is generated by Gmail.
Their inbound spam control lately has been good (there have been some
bad periods over the years) but outbound to non-Gmail systems it seems
to pour forth, largely of the fake purchase charge phishing type.
The irony of course is that a Google account sending spam and phishes
stays, well, you know, active. So absent being deleted for some other
reason (e.g., for sending spam?), it will just keep churning along. -L
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--Lauren--
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