I am in the process of moving out some contacts from Google Contacts, specifically those that I do not have a Gmail address. It’s a way for me to give these people a tiny bit more privacy, as I’m doing a cleanup of my contact list. My concern is that Google will still keep their data even after I delete it from my end. Is it so? Or does removing a contact really delete it from there?
100% yes, absolutely, as a database backup. Whether it’s stored elsewhere or used for any other purpose is another question.
I’m pessimistic when it comes to companies using my data but I assume they will use and abuse that info forever.
Not directly an answer to your question, but this is a really nice gesture. I’d appreciate it a ton personally
@lemann Thank you! Yea, many of my contact’s emails are probably on Yahoo instead, so it’s not that much of a biggie. I know nobody using Tuta or Proton or whatever. And probably they no longer care since most people use their emails only for logging in to websites that don’t support SSO with social networks/Google and just outright create a new email if they forget their password to that. But hey, less data for Google is still less data for Google.
We have no visibility into Google’s internal processes. The developers that work on the product would probably know, but the rest of us can only guess.
