An update to Google’s controversial new Inactive Policy.
“Google announced the new policy back in May, saying it’s intended to prevent security risks: Internal findings show older accounts are more likely to rely on recycled passwords and less likely to employ up-to-date security measures like two-step-verification, making them far more vulnerable to issues like phishing, hacking and spam.”
But, they obviously heard the concerns of the people to preserve data on an account that would have been deleted like Youtube videos that are attached to abandoned accounts.
There were concerns that we’d lose a lot of educational, historical relevant videos that should be preserved on Youtube. Not only videos but other data that is publicly shared via abandoned accounts.
So, Google clarified or changed their policy to include the following exceptions to the policy…
“a Google Account with YouTube channels, videos or comments; an account that has a gift card with a monetary balance; or an account that has a published application, for example, one that hosts an app on the Google Play store.”
That’s great news because it solves the issue of the main concerns and it’s easy to preserve an account if you want to just by adding a small balance to your google play store account.
Overall, this wasn’t a bad move on Google because it is senseless to keep accounts that have legitimately been abandoned or created and never used. By laying out a strict policy *with exceptions, They get to “clean house” and keep the people happy.
Well Done Google.