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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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[–] randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 5 points 5 hours ago

It's like how most people call moving a file into the trash can "deleting." It is deleted (in a sense), but you can still recover it if you want before the trash can gets emptied.

Or like how even you can actually delet a file from the disk but still be able to recover it before the disk space is overwritten by other files. I'm not saying that this is what Google does when you recover a freshly deleted account (most likely not), but what I'm trying to say with these two examples is that being able to be recovered is not a contradiction with having been deleted

Also I don't get why you take problem with this. It's not like it's another loop to jump through to get to delete the account?