Google don’t delete. They make unavailable.
If a judge said that owning that video was probable cause or whatever, they could produce every user who used to have that file.
If a judge said that owning that video was probable cause or whatever, they could produce every user who used to have that file.
On an aside, such a setup is also a layer of defense-in-depth protection against a certain, uncommon class of bugs.
I do work for Google, but don't, in any way, speak for the company. All of the above information can be found on the internet, eg. https://www.quora.com/Does-Google-really-delete-the-account-... about Google accounts themselves.