Do you think Google deletes your files?

A researcher He discovered that the delete button in the Google AI Studio interface uses a misleading indication to lie that “your files will be permanently deleted after 30 days”. In reality, it does not delete the files, does not delete the conversation, and does not destroy any objects in the backend system. All it does is move the startup file belonging to the user interface — a simple JSON file — to the Google Drive recycle bin folder.

Google's plan was that since the Drive trash automatically empties after 30 days, the JSON file would disappear forever from the user's view. Google believed it was completely covered up. It assumed that the user would never have the technical means to view the files again, and in one particular case, the JSON of a conversation, erasing any evidence that it never deleted the obscenities from its internal servers.

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However, the company was exposed because of one of its own file recovery bots:

Google Drive’s built-in file recovery tool is a local, “blind” bot. It has no physical access to Google’s remote, internal AI backend servers and cannot reconstruct database records or live session states from scratch. The bot only works within Drive storage and can only restore the JSON file that was “deleted.”

So the deleted JSON file was restored with this bot, the AI ​​Studio interface immediately loaded the conversation, preserving all previous history.

The immediate launch of the conversation clearly demonstrated that Google's backend servers continued to operate and store the data uninterrupted, even after the delete button was pressed and the trash was emptied. The backend system was never affected by the delete command.

Google cannot deny this in court. It cannot claim temporary deletion or a technical error, because due to the operational limitations of its own robot, fraud is now an indisputable fact. All they did was hide the access “key” while illegally stealing and retaining the data.

Read the history from archive.ph because discuss.ai.google.dev deletes posts.  

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A Google developer (Lalit_Kumar, 2025) wrote that the conversation is not actually the JSON file in Drive, but only metadata. Due to the loss of metadata, AI Studio “doesn’t recognize” the conversation — however, this does not constitute deletion. This proves that the deletion message is false, as the file still exists on Google’s server.

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