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At least write "is scheduled to be deleted" to make the lie not as obvious.
Could still be actually deleted, but there's backups. Technically true.
If you can recover my Data then my Data is NOT deleted.
Just a copy of it, yes.
A copy of the data IS the data...
A friend told me he filled his google drive with a lot of small and random data in a cryptomator container. But he was not able to fill the google calendar and contacts with random data.
His Idea was, that after deleting there is a possibility that google only backup the last snapshot of his data and throw away the older backups. But only empty the account would not work.
Seems a legit idea, but what an effort ๐ฎ. There seem no tool that would do that for you.