Just last weekend I had a friend lose their Google account. They can’t sign in any more. Trying to sign in prompts them to “verify” their account by signing in on a certain specific tablet computer. That tablet computer has broken wifi and can’t sign in to anything. Maybe we could configure the wifi right, if we could sign in, but we can’t without wifi. As far as we can tell, this Google account they’ve had ever since the beginning of Gmail is now dead. All their data is inaccessible.