Google is not so silently deleting the accounts (gmail, etc) of anyone that has not given them a phone number to link and generate information sales profit from. It happened to my gmail account and there was nothing I could do, short of supplying a phone number, to stop it. They lock you out of your account saying you must add a phone number to log in, even if you put in your user and pass and even alternate secondary auth mechanisms are completed successfully, they say you still haven't logged in. And because you haven't "logged in", they say the account has become inactive for $x months and delete it.

Stop using google services for your personal stuff. I know many can't avoid it at work, but personally, we all can.