Google's new Inactive Account Manager, the tool/setting that allows a user's Google Account to be deleted after a set period of inactivity is not a very good idea considering it allows a user's Google account to be deleted in its entirety. This includes an entire blog, youtube videos, Google + posts, etc. Of course, the tool has more useful features such as alerting certain specified persons of your inactivity. It is the complete account deletion option that has me worried.
Like You Never Existed
This in a way is allowing alteration of history. No longer having access to a person's works because he died is just plain silly. Imagine if people like Archimedes, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Micheangelo had and exercised the same option. I think Google has made a very grave mistake here. Why anyone would want to do this is beyond me. It's almost like you never existed. Remember when Marty and his siblings were disappearing in Back to the Future. More importantly, the inactivity period setting cannot exceed twelve months. I wonder how Tom Hank's character in Castaway would have felt if he used the account deletion option only for him to 'rejoin' civilization after four years.
And then, does Google ever really delete anything?
Like You Never Existed
This in a way is allowing alteration of history. No longer having access to a person's works because he died is just plain silly. Imagine if people like Archimedes, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Micheangelo had and exercised the same option. I think Google has made a very grave mistake here. Why anyone would want to do this is beyond me. It's almost like you never existed. Remember when Marty and his siblings were disappearing in Back to the Future. More importantly, the inactivity period setting cannot exceed twelve months. I wonder how Tom Hank's character in Castaway would have felt if he used the account deletion option only for him to 'rejoin' civilization after four years.
And then, does Google ever really delete anything?
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