when an account has been deleted can your information still be traced?

Question

when an email account has been deleted can your information on yourself be traced by another party> closed account because of spam and unwanted contacts

Answer 1

Maybe. It's entirely possible that any e-mails you have sent or received could be stored elsewhere. The government is leaning on ISPs to do just that.

It's also possible that when the account was deleted, the mailbox associated with it was not. Google never deletes anything from their systems though they may block public access to it. If you deleted a GMail account it's almost a certainty that your mailbox was still there buried on their servers somewhere.

And of course any e-mail that you ever sent or received can still exist on the other party's system.

If data exists somewhere, somebody can get access to it. In the above examples it would probably take a subpoena or court order to get it but it CAN be done.