Up until now if you wanted to delete your Threads account, you would have to also delete your Instagram account. An update coming soon will change that, as well as new privacy updates.
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According to the latest report published by Google's Threat Analysis Group, more than 21,000 YouTube channels, AdSense accounts, and Blogger blogs were terminated in the second quarter of 2023.
Google has begun sending out its second round of cautionary notices about the closure of unused or inactive accounts. Google is communicating the upcoming action by emailing affected users.
Today Elon Musk has taken to Twitter to confirm another move by the platform, to remove accounts that have seen no activity at all for an as of yet undefined amount of years on the site.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has announced that the social media platform will delete 1.5 billion inactive accounts that haven't logged in or tweeted from, to free up usernames and handles.
The Cupertino firm will require developers that offer a way to create accounts in their apps also offer a method of deleting them. This policy will be in effect starting January 31 next year.
Instagram has announced changes to its account disabling policy. It will now allow users to appeal their deleted content, get their accounts back even after they've been disabled, and more.
In a recent change, Facebook has extended the length of time users must wait for their accounts to be deleted to thirty days in order to give people "more time to make a fully informed choice."
Apple has launched its new Data and Privacy website in order to get in-line with the GDPR rules coming into effect on Friday. The site lets you download your account archive and delete your account.
