That poor kid. Jesus Christ.

edit: 14. fuck man I would not have survived a thing like this.

My eldest daughter is at university. She was writing her dissertation on Google Docs because she had a hard drive break in 1st year and didn't want to go through that again.

She's lost access to her dissertation and submission deadline is only a few weeks away.

Imagine having to explain that to your advisor

Google can do this at any time for any reason to anyone.

Backing critical stuff up to online accounts can be a way to avoid loss in the event of hard drive failure, theft, fire, malware, etc BUT it shouldn't be your only copy, you should keep a local back-up or a back-up with another unrelated company.

The cloud is just someone else's computer. Your Google documents and such are not immune to being lost, it's very improbable but as seen here things and shit can happen. As companies adopt more AI moderation there will be more false flags in addition to genuine ones that result in total losses for people due to their "risk score" rising too high.

Keep local copies, never put all your eggs in one basket.

You should back up your shit

I have more backups of video game saves from a decade ago then this guy does his business data.

Google do not know you and have no idea if what you are saying is the truth.

Oh sweet summer child.

But this is making me wonder what, if anything, critical I have stored with Google that if I were ever to be banned would I lose? My resumes.. some tax documents.. pictures from the last 15 years or so... good time to pull all that shit out of there and save it somewhere locally I guess.

It's kinda weird that google's policy is just ban all the accounts. Like the risk is that Gemini would SA the child, basically. And Gemini correctly blocked the kid. The rest seems almost punitive, even though I'm sure its originally motivated by legal ass covering.

TIL https://takeout.google.com/ is a clearing house where you can request google compile a zipped archive of any/all data you have stored on google products (including drive) and email a download link to you. you can make it a one time thing or something it does periodically. it can email you the link to the archive file or upload it to another cloud service account.

this story made me realize that while i do have a lot of things backed up to local storage accounts, i had gotten lazy with some financial records and other important documentation going back years that i keep in the cloud. so i've gone ahead and made myself a little snapshot for right now. which is nice, because i stood up a media box with a crazy amount of storage in a self-hosted RAID config and all my google shit is going to be like a 0.02% rounding error to drop in there.

not that i'm planning on a goon session with gemini or whatever.

I would be very thankful to be freed from the shackles of “business data” tbh

Like, he was sexting the chatbot? I feel like Google is trying to blame the child here

It's a terrible situation but I still couldn't stop laughing at this...

Is there any legal mechanism I can use to get all my google accounts back?

If you only have one copy, it is already lost. People have to learn, just like many little children touching the stove, the hard way.

Data loss through gooning is one of the funnier ways to learn a lesson.

He really needs to tell his son that he should put in more effort with stuff like this, start by setting the right mood, say with some fitting music, and show more consideration in general. No one gets rejected then...

I thought this was talking about the rocket launch today.

I really need to audit what is attached to my google accounts, and back up my google drive and google photos.

"3-2-1? Why are we counting numbers backwards?"

Not for nothing the Gdrive app let's you symlink local directories to gdrive...not that that is readily apparent to non-computer touchers

How is this not a bit?

This seems like either bullshit or REALLY bad judgement on the part of OP.

Why would you tie your personal Google account to your business?

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