A woman from Florida (United States) has recovered the rest of her Google data after the technology company disabled her account after sending emails related to the providant defense.
With the help of the Thomas More SocietyTrudy Perez-Poveda sued Google in 2024 when the company supposedly blocked her from her account after she sent an email trying to organize a Catholic Mass and a prayer event in front of a local abort center.
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The lawsuit claimed that “about an hour” after sending the email, Google suspended Perez-Poveda’s account without any explanation. After several days trying to recover his account, Google informed him that he had “permanently disabled it” for violating the “acceptable use policy” of the company.
Since he filed the lawsuit in July 2024, Perez-Poveda was able to recover some of his messages and data in small quantities with the help of external technological experts. But, without Google’s help, most remained inaccessible.
In a communication From July 31, Thomas More Society reported that the rest of Perez-Poveda’s data became “inexplicably accessible for the first time since this controversy began”, just days before the deadline imposed by the court to reach an agreement in the lawsuit.
A computer expert confirmed that an action taken by Google allowed the data to be available again. Perez-Poveda recovered the data for a year and ten months after Google blocked her from her account.
“Google said there were certain online tools that would allow him to recover the remaining data, despite the fact that technological experts showed that these tools did not work,” said Thomas More Society. “At another time, Google even falsely said that the data had never been retained.”
“Google has dragged Trudy Perez-Poveda to a land of smoke and mirrors, apparently because she was provident and had the courage to face Google and demand what belonged to her,” said lawyer Matt Heffron.
Trudy “was not going to allow a technological giant to cancel his mission of saving lives to protect the unborn,” said Heffron.
“I was able to recover access to more than a decade of personal data and continue my mission of saving lives in our Jacksonville community,” said Perez-Poveda in the press release.
“Great technology companies cannot decide which speech is acceptable,” he added.
Translated and adapted by the ACI Press team. Originally published in CNA.
Tessa Gervasini
Tesa Gervasini is a intern of Catholic News Agency and member of College Fix. Recently he graduated from the Texas Christian University with a degree in strategic communication.