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> to delete the contents and deactivate the account

Are you in the EU? Google's DPO or your country's data protection authority might want to hear about it.

Maybe he doesn't want to send them a copy of his national ID for the sake of privacy.

Are privacy guidelines in EU countries so well defined that they take terms such as "password for an online service" into their vocabulary?

They might not explicitly, but you have the right to take any data you have or they might have on you of any service, no matter if you have an account or not: aka right of access. I don’t know if it has been used this way, but it might be a possibility.

Nope, I'm in the US and here in the US Google acts as an extension of our intelligence agencies so we have no recourse. They're effectively part of the surveillance state, thus untouchable.

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