Your Google Account holds a lot of valuable information, from cherished photos to important emails and documents.

It's funny because different people would interpret this sentence differently.

If you have high level understanding of the tech behind it, this feels like a threat. But if you don't, this sounds like an honest message from someone who genuinely wants to protect you.

A regular user log into Google account and see their photos today. Tomorrow they log in and see the photos again. And they would assume this system will always work like this.

"Be a shame if you couldn't access them any more...

Verify identity to continue"

Moved all of my cherished photos out of my Google Account.