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by yial 1119 days ago
I will say from experience with google maps, that if you say the right combination of lawyer, legal, etc etc…not directed at them, but about another entity accidentally in control of your maps location.

They will call you from an overseas number between 8-11pm your local time, or 4am.

If you answer, they can magically fix it in moments.

If you don’t — you may get a call another time… or never… in which case, good luck.

(In short, it’s insanely hard to get anything going wrong with Google fixed. And I am so sorry you had to go through that. I’m terrified of having something like my drive deleted(shared files). But I do pay for space… so perhaps paying makes it less likely?)

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Fortunately it was resolved before we actually opened to the public (barely). But at one point I was like, fuck. Google Maps is the main driver of customers to our type of business here, from my research. What if this couldn't be resolved at all and we were stuck unable to control our business on Maps? It would be a huge problem.