SAN FRANCISCO - Google will begin deleting accounts this week that haven’t been logged in to for at least two years, citing security concerns. The company announced earlier this year that if a Google ...

Google is conducting a massive cull of inactive accounts on December 1st, giving users three days to act if they want to prevent their historical data from being deleted forever. The purge, which ...

It’s become progressively common for users to need an account in order for them to access a website’s full range of services and content. Since each new account needs a unique username and password, ...

Update, Dec. 16, 2024: This story, originally published Dec. 14 now includes additional advice on how to securely recover a forgotten username and password to an inactive Gmail account to prevent ...

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Google account holders, beware: If you have an old Google account, you have just a few more hours to use it or lose it. Beginning Dec. 1, Google will delete inactive accounts and all their contents, ...

Old, unused Google accounts and all the messages and photos connected with them could be deleted starting Dec. 1. Earlier this year, the company announced plans to start deleting accounts that have ...

Seven months after Google warned people it would be mass-deleting inactive accounts, the company will begin pulling the trigger this Friday, December 1. That’s going to mean Gmail, Google Chat, Google ...

Back in May, Google said that towards the end of this year it would start shutting down inactive accounts. If you filed that away as a "sometime" item on your to-do list, it's time to take action: the ...