Yikes! If Google kills your account your phone becomes dumb phone

[6tr6tr]

Re: Yikes! If Google kills your account your phone becomes dumb p

I had this happen to a customers phone. Her phone came in with contacts, and left out with none. She swore up and down that i lost her contacts. Then i had her sign in her gmail online, and it was suspended. Luckily i had exported her contacts on her card before hand. Had her make a new gmail, imported contacts, then sent her on her way.

Yep, it happens to real people. Luckily, she hadn't already purchased a ton of apps, etc.

 

[Linkchomp]

Re: Yikes! If Google kills your account your phone becomes dumb p

Goodness, can Google really get away with something like that because that's a serious breach of privacy and it's just asking for a class action lawsuit.

One of the reasons why I will never get a Google+ profile.

 

[chud]

Re: Yikes! If Google kills your account your phone becomes dumb p

Goodness, can Google really get away with something like that because that's a serious breach of privacy and it's just asking for a class action lawsuit.

One of the reasons why I will never get a Google+ profile.

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Do you have a Facebook account?

I wonder who the University of Phoenix lawyer is who started all this anti-Google+ rhetoric. I've been hearing it a lot lately and if you'll look, G+ and Facebook's TOS are like carbon copies of each other.

 

[Linkchomp]

Re: Yikes! If Google kills your account your phone becomes dumb p

Except Google's been known to terminate people's accounts for absolutely no reason.

 

[Johnly]

Re: Yikes! If Google kills your account your phone becomes dumb p

Except Google's been known to terminate people's accounts for absolutely no reason.

proof, or hot air.

 

[On3wheels]

Google has more information about every individual customer than even the government.sure most of it is what porn you like or your favorite tv showa but that and every communication I send that is not face to face goes threw google. they can know who I know with me even knowing I know anyone. Last thing I'm worried about is losing my contacts and text messages cause they close my account.

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[Puzzlegal]

Re: Yikes! If Google kills your account your phone becomes dumb p

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Do you have a Facebook account?

I wonder who the University of Phoenix lawyer is who started all this anti-Google+ rhetoric. I've been hearing it a lot lately and if you'll look, G+ and Facebook's TOS are like carbon copies of each other.

I've never heard of Facebook killing an account because they don't like the name you pick -- despite their TOS. I know several cases of actual people who had their G+ accounts killed, despite their having followed the TOS (using a name that they are actually known by). The one I've heard most about is Skud, a woman who worked for Google and was known by a large number of Google employees as "Skud", despite that not being her legal name. Other people who have had accounts killed don't even know why - some have speculated it was because they had a hyphen or some other punctuation in their name.

I personally think that this is growing pains in a Beta service, and they will abide by their own TOS in the future, (possibly modifying it, but at least disclosing the rules) but it wasn't University of Phoenix that started the ruckus.

 

[wpbfjr]

Re: Yikes! If Google kills your account your phone becomes dumb p

proof, or hot air.

+/- 2 years ago my google email acct was suspended.
google claimed my accts emails had been reported as 'spam'.

the issue was cleared when i added a "opt out" comment in my already long and purely made-up BS email sig:

lol


"CONFIDENTIAL: This e-mail and files transmitted with it are confidential, intended solely for the individual(s) or entity addressed, may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you receive this e-mail in error, destroy immediately.

All rights, including but not limited to Intellectual Property Rights, are reserved. Permissions to forward, quote, copy, or reproduce the contents of this e-mail, outside of those to whom it is intended, are specifically DENIED.

Additionally, this e-mail may be protected, governed, and/or subject to Department of Homeland Security Department of Homeland Security | Preserving our Freedoms, Protecting America and/or Interpol INTERPOL and/or Safe Harbor Export.gov - Safe Harbor surveillance's, dictates and/or strictures. Govern yourself accordingly.

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[chud]

Re: Yikes! If Google kills your account your phone becomes dumb p

Except Google's been known to terminate people's accounts for absolutely no reason.

Come on man, "no reason?" The Noid isn't just going around killing accounts at random over there. The reason might not always be to ones liking but there's a reason behind it.

I've never heard of Facebook killing an account because they don't like the name you pick -- despite their TOS. I know several cases of actual people who had their G+ accounts killed, despite their having followed the TOS (using a name that they are actually known by). The one I've heard most about is Skud, a woman who worked for Google and was known by a large number of Google employees as "Skud", despite that not being her legal name. Other people who have had accounts killed don't even know why - some have speculated it was because they had a hyphen or some other punctuation in their name.

I personally think that this is growing pains in a Beta service, and they will abide by their own TOS in the future, (possibly modifying it, but at least disclosing the rules) but it wasn't University of Phoenix that started the ruckus.

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Um.

Tell us more about Skud. This is the first I'm hearing about that story.............

And my University of Phoenix comment was tongue in cheek because the people who I personally know who are against joining G+ have been using the line that "Google owns anything you post on there" while they are furiously posting their location in Formspring on Facebook, I can't help but laugh at them.

+/- 2 years ago my google email acct was suspended.
google claimed my accts emails had been reported as 'spam'.

the issue was cleared when i added a "opt out" comment in my already long and purely made-up BS email sig:

lol


"CONFIDENTIAL: This e-mail and files transmitted with it are confidential, intended solely for the individual(s) or entity addressed, may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you receive this e-mail in error, destroy immediately.

All rights, including but not limited to Intellectual Property Rights, are reserved. Permissions to forward, quote, copy, or reproduce the contents of this e-mail, outside of those to whom it is intended, are specifically DENIED.

Additionally, this e-mail may be protected, governed, and/or subject to Department of Homeland Security Department of Homeland Security | Preserving our Freedoms, Protecting America and/or Interpol INTERPOL and/or Safe Harbor Export.gov - Safe Harbor surveillance's, dictates and/or strictures. Govern yourself accordingly.

To be removed from future mailings, include your name and e-mail address in an e-mail titled "OPT OUT" to: ~~~~~~@gmail.com"

Yeah, no reason at all for that one.

 

[Puzzlegal]

Re: Yikes! If Google kills your account your phone becomes dumb p

Um.

Tell us more about Skud. This is the first I'm hearing about that story.............

And my University of Phoenix comment was tongue in cheek because the people who I personally know who are against joining G+ have been using the line that "Google owns anything you post on there" while they are furiously posting their location in Formspring on Facebook, I can't help but laugh at them.

A summary she recently wrote about her suspension from google+ and what she's done and what she wants
An update on my Google Plus suspension | Infotropism

A page mostly devoted to presenting evidence that "skud" is the name people use for her, but it also mentions her suspension from google+
My name | Infotropism

and a page of links about the google+ policy, with way more stuff than you are likely to be interested in reading.
https://bentrem.wordpress.com/2011/07/24/sidebar-googles-plus-suspensions/

I know people who know skud, and I know people who use "persistent pseudonyms" on-line and in real life, and don't want their legal name linked to the name they are generally known by. Something like half of my google+ feed consists of people discussing this issue, and I recently got an email from a friend that included the line "I hope google will work out the name issue so I don't have to keep reading about it". So I may be more sensitive to the issue than most users. I am more optimistic than skud that it will be resolved. But meanwhile google is being pretty inconsistent. For instance, I gather they have allowed "lady gaga", whose claim to that name is similar to skud's claim to her use-name. And they are not being consistent with their stated policy, which allows a name that "people know you as".

 

[6tr6tr]

Re: Yikes! If Google kills your account your phone becomes dumb p

Yeah, no reason at all for that one.

Unless someone reported him for an email, then yes, there was no reason. They should not be able to read your emails and without any complaints form anyone receiving them, determine it's spam. You can write a joke email to a friend and how's google's system going to know it was meant as a joke?

 

[Puzzlegal]

Re: Yikes! If Google kills your account your phone becomes dumb p

And sometimes stuff gets tagged as spam inappropriately. I subscribe to a mailing list that has a lot of, shall we say, naive users. It's a subscription-only mailing list (you have to opt in), and if people can't manage to unsubscribe on their own, the list-owner is always happy to respond privately to notes written to the list. So it's not spam in any reasonable sense.

But sometimes one subscriber will write stuff that annoys other people, and various subscribers will tag his notes as spam, thinking that they are marking that user as a source of spam, rather than the mailing list. The list owner is actually the one who is being reported, though. I know he's had trouble with that in the past.

Not that an email provider shouldn't investigate him if that happens, but I know he's just been cut off from some email services from time to time, and it was a nuisance for him to get unblocked.

(and really, the offending subscribers aren't writing "spam", either. But that's another matter.)