Here's Your Reminder to Sign in to Your Old Gmail Account Before Google Deletes It

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If you have an old Gmail account lying around that you haven’t used in a while, make sure to use it before December 1, or Google will permanently delete it. By ‘in a while,’ Google means two years. That’s the criteria they have set for the amount of time that should have passed for them to consider an account inactive.

Google’s Inactive Account Policy states, “Google products reserve the right to delete your data when your account has not been used within that product for two years. December 1, 2023, is the earliest a Google Account will be deleted due to this policy.”

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Google says it’s doing this to protect your unused accounts against hacking. Hackers tend to go after inactive or unused accounts and use those to send scam emails. The fact that inactive accounts mostly don’t have two-factor authentication enabled makes them an even more tempting target.

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