[deanCommie]

Why would the Google Cloud data deletion policy for 1/ paying 2/ enterprise customers deleting their own data that they 3/ opted in to store, and then 4/ opted in to delete have anything to do with the retention policy for Google Maps' 1/ free 2/ consumer customers having data deleted by Google that the customer 3/ did not choose to store, and then 4/ did not choose to delete?

At least 4 meaningfully different qualifiers about the situation for entirely separate parts of Google.

[pbhjpbhj]

Oh for sure, can you point me to some documentation closer to the specific services in question (free maps data)?

I was only suggesting that it might be indicative of the period deleted data ordinarily takes to leave the backup cycle.