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.
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
Despite my moronicity all of my photos are on my hard drive, all of my emails are on my own hard drive, and all of my contacts and documents are on my own hard drive.
Not only are they all on my own hard drive, they are on my hard drive AND on a NAS-- oh AND the NAS copies all of my important stuff and throws it into the cloud (which I pay for).
So if Google (I don't use any Google products other than YouTube and search) deleted my account I would lose a grand total of 0 bytes of data.
If I'm 49% moron and I realized over a decade ago that relying on Google to store your valuable data (I think it was the "for free" part that made me suspicious) was a bad idea how is it happening to all of these people who I presume are <49% moron?
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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[ 4.4 ms ] story [ 32.2 ms ] threadIf 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.
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
I'm like, 49% moron.
Despite my moronicity all of my photos are on my hard drive, all of my emails are on my own hard drive, and all of my contacts and documents are on my own hard drive.
Not only are they all on my own hard drive, they are on my hard drive AND on a NAS-- oh AND the NAS copies all of my important stuff and throws it into the cloud (which I pay for).
So if Google (I don't use any Google products other than YouTube and search) deleted my account I would lose a grand total of 0 bytes of data.
If I'm 49% moron and I realized over a decade ago that relying on Google to store your valuable data (I think it was the "for free" part that made me suspicious) was a bad idea how is it happening to all of these people who I presume are <49% moron?
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.