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Comment by Minor49er | Hacker News Reader

A big problem with companies like Google is that they do not like to disclose their reasons for terminating or flagging accounts. It's probably a policy that's intended to stop people from figuring out what they watch for and gaming the system. But if the Twitter user legitimately did nothing wrong and really is out thousands of dollars, then he should seek legal council.

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That's conflating disclosing what evidence Google used to determine the offense, and what the offense even was.

If someone was gaming the system, they'd already know which parts of the ToS they were breaking, so they'd gain no advantage from being informed of that again by Google.

Even if they lost control of their account and didn't know it?

How compatible is this with GDPR? It simply states the company is to hand over all data linked to a person.

    The right to be informed
    The right of access
    The right to rectification
    The right to erasure
    The right to restrict processing
    The right to data portability
    The right to object
    Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling.

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