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After over 15 years, my Google account has been permanently disabled

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In the thread, the @google account replied with the suggestion of going through an appeal process but the user already apparently appealed and it was denied. it would be very interesting to learn what were the given reasons for its denial.

A big problem with companies like Google is that they do not like to disclose their reasons for terminating or flagging accounts. It's probably a policy that's intended to stop people from figuring out what they watch for and gaming the system. But if the Twitter user legitimately did nothing wrong and really is out thousands of dollars, then he should seek legal council.

That's conflating disclosing what evidence Google used to determine the offense, and what the offense even was.

If someone was gaming the system, they'd already know which parts of the ToS they were breaking, so they'd gain no advantage from being informed of that again by Google.

Even if they lost control of their account and didn't know it?

How compatible is this with GDPR? It simply states the company is to hand over all data linked to a person.

    The right to be informed
    The right of access
    The right to rectification
    The right to erasure
    The right to restrict processing
    The right to data portability
    The right to object
    Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling.

Every other day I seem to read stories about accounts people have lost access to with Google and very little support to fix it.

Example from the other day, I noticed someone who lost access to their YouTube account but no real support to fix it. I'm dropping this here in case anyone from Google ever does read these discussions: https://twitter.com/MatRicardo/status/1318540789719486471

Along with any other accounts that use your disabled Gmail account as the linked email address.

We live in a dystopia, where a megacorporation can annihilate your virtual life in the blink of an eye without any real recourse.

Nightmare.

But one day I lost my 2 Amazon accounts, when I talked to them to disable my duplicate account. Eventually they disabled both. First the wrong good one, then the bad one. Which was a godsend in hindsight. You always have to assume extreme stupidity.

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