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0 pointsPragmaticPulp4y ago0 comments

To clarify: Google isn't deleting these files. They're just "restricted", which as far as I can tell means they can't be shared publicly. It's triggering the mechanism to prevent people from using Google Drive as a file sharing service for copyrighted works. I think owners can still access their own files just fine.

That said, I agree 100% that you shouldn't rely on a single point of failure for any backup. Data must be in at least two places.

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Qub3d4y ago

In this case, that is correct. From my (and the project TOS;DR's [0]) interpretation the TOS is still in general worded in such a way that Google can ultimately say, "we feel this shouldn't be here" and remove it.

For the record, that is fine, legally speaking. It just is something that I think we don't keep in mind, until our Gmail login gets locked[1] and our last backup was 6+ months ago.

[0]:https://tosdr.org/en/service/217

[1]:https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Gigachad4y ago

I had one of my google docs files restricted which was just a school group project. No one was able to access it.

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