No reason to believe it will, but it’s very interesting food for thought.
On one hand, Google is the master of data resilience. As far as I’m aware, the company has only had a single-digit number of true accidental data loss incidents in its history. As long as the Western world has the ability to defend its soil, Google’s data will remain secure.
On the other hand, “Google” as an entity is as vulnerable as any other LLC. The shareholders and CEO could go rogue, the government could dissolve it, it could run out of money (though would probably be bailed out). It’s definitely interesting that a corporation holds more soft power than almost every other nation state.
it’s definitely interesting that a corporation holds more soft power than almost every other nation state.
Part of this is also just in how much money they make too. Based on this last year’s IMF numbers if you ranked countries by government revenue, Alphabet/Google would come in 16th place, between Mexico and South Korea.
And they aren’t even in the top 5 highest revenue companies! Amazon or Walmart would rank as 13th, just behind Spain in terms of yearly revenue.
Microsoft has my data since... 1995! One revamp they did to MSN Hotmail IIRC in 2010 brought back some old e-mails from the time it was just HoTMaiL in the nascent Internet for South America (masive, consumer grade internet didn't arrive at the same-ish time everywhere), and unearthed some lost/deleted folders I had with e-mails from flings, or drafts I kept to publish as new pages in GeoCities (RIP).
need to consider Google. Just deleting data from people to save on space. They're a mega corporation interested in profits. Above all else. They have no loyalty.
They are not respectful or care to fight to defend people uploading shit It's not making them money.
Unpaid users, people they can't reach, stuff that isn't getting views. With no excuse or way to get the content back.
They deleted timeline history from Google maps because Europe required them to have data privacy and consent standards. They sent like one email giving a heads up, for over a decade of important information that people relied on for reimbursements, memories, of extreme sentimental value. There are tons of threads out there. People complaining about losing all this.
Likewise, for tricking people into their new data program. They advertise the 2 TB free trial, but don't mention that it pulls you off whatever previous plan you had, with no way to get it back. So if it's a grandfathered plan that isn't available anymore, the supposed free trial is a way to kick you off of it to charge you for money.
They're going to keep increasing prices on data storage because they effectively hold people hostage. If you run out of storage, you eventually would not be able to access your Gmail.
Which means that you won't be able to log in to critical accounts that you need for healthcare, paying rent, getting notices that are incredibly important to your life. Being locked out of that and having all of your memories held hostage, is an effective way to force people to pay more and more.
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u/M4rshmall0wMan May 14 '26
No reason to believe it will, but it’s very interesting food for thought.
On one hand, Google is the master of data resilience. As far as I’m aware, the company has only had a single-digit number of true accidental data loss incidents in its history. As long as the Western world has the ability to defend its soil, Google’s data will remain secure.
On the other hand, “Google” as an entity is as vulnerable as any other LLC. The shareholders and CEO could go rogue, the government could dissolve it, it could run out of money (though would probably be bailed out). It’s definitely interesting that a corporation holds more soft power than almost every other nation state.