Interesting story, it became public because the company whose account got deleted had some weight behind them. Now imagine something like that happening to a regular person, someone who just had been using free service. So don't rely on 3rd parties, just take responsibility and do what will help you to keep your data. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/09/unisuper-google-cloud-issue-account-access