" ::I can't. Apart from numerous Google support-threads, blog posts etc, that probably can't be considered reliable enough, there are no newspaper articles about it (as far as I can see). This blog post describes a part of the problem; http://sunpig.com/martin/archives/2011/07/03/google-made-my-son-cry.html In this case the victim was an ""underaged"" boy whose Gmail account Google simply erased without giving him a chance to make any back up. Many people would probably consider that being a less severe issue. But the problem is more grave since Google applies the same rule to business accounts, accounts that doesn't have a physical owner. If you can't ""prove"" that your company is above 13 years of age
" ::I can't. Apart from numerous Google support-threads, blog posts etc, that probably can't be considered reliable enough, there are no newspaper articles about it (as far as I can see). This blog post describes a part of the problem; http://sunpig.com/martin/archives/2011/07/03/google-made-my-son-cry.html In this case the victim was an ""underaged"" boy whose Gmail account Google simply erased without giving him a chance to make any back up. Many people would probably consider that being a less severe issue. But the problem is more grave since Google applies the same rule to business accounts, accounts that doesn't have a physical owner. If you can't ""prove"" that your company is above 13 years of age,