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Re: Nintendo leak:employee accessing private YouTube videos

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Post by randomdata »

qwertox wrote: post #24
thinkmassive wrote: post #2

Title is difficult to decipher, here’s what it’s about: > A new report on old privacy incidents [2017] suggests that at least one Nintendo leak came from a Google employee showing off private YouTube videos to a friend.

"Nintendo leak: Google employee accessing private YouTube videos" would be clearer. Showing those videos "only" to a friend isn't really that relevant.

The friend is quite relevant. There is no expectation of a video stored on a Google system being private to Google employees, but there is an expectation that they will not take that information outside of Google.

Re: Nintendo leak:employee accessing private YouTube videos

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Post by rrr_oh_man »

randomdata wrote: post #31
qwertox wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Nintendo leak: Google employee accessing private YouTube videos" would be clearer. Showing those videos "only" to a friend isn't really that relevant.

The friend is quite relevant. There is no expectation of a video stored on a Google system being private to Google employees, but there is an expectation that they will not take that information outside of Google.

In practice, bound by agreements is valid until it isn’t

Re: Nintendo leak:employee accessing private YouTube videos

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Post by coldpie »

px43 wrote: post #20
coldpie wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Articles like this and the endless stream of hacks & leaks are important reminders that there is no such thing as computer security. If your data is on a networked computer, you should consider it semi-public.

> no such thing as computer security There absolutely is for anyone who cares to use it. That sort of defeatist mindset is super counterproductive, and ends up putting more people in harm's way. We're talking about people choosing to upload unencrypted content to a cloud service that is obviously publicly available. The security/privacy properties of this action I think should be obvious even to less technical users.

Yeah, man. These are all the end users' fault: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_data_breaches Totally.

Re: Nintendo leak:employee accessing private YouTube videos

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Post by pixl97 »

mitchdoogle wrote: post #23
pixl97 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Private" doesn't mean what you think it means. Pretty much all these sites can view every bit of content you submit to them for moderation purposes. Many of them state your data can teach learning models. If you really want it private, you don't want it on the cloud/social media sites.

People know what "private" means. If a company calls something private, but it isn't, then they're the ones who need to reconsider what it means, and call their service something else.

>People know what "private" means.

A general rule is people don't know shit when it comes to legal definitions. When you have a video it's private to you. When you give that video to a friend it's 'private' between both of you. And when you put a private video on youtube it's 'private' between you and the conglomerate entity of hundreds of thousands of people and all their contractors called Google.

Now the contractor did break the rule and shared it, but your idea of private as no one will see it is the broken expectation.

Re: Nintendo leak:employee accessing private YouTube videos

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Post by Traubenfuchs »

From my experience with any kind of work that concerns interesting, private (multimedia) data, all of it will be used and abused by employees. I once worked on the backend for the tax return calculations and people there were just looking up anyones private (financial) data left and right, e.g. to see how much their dates were making, where they were living, when exactly they were born, etc...

Re: Nintendo leak:employee accessing private YouTube videos

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Post by throwaway2016a »

randomdata wrote: post #31
qwertox wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Nintendo leak: Google employee accessing private YouTube videos" would be clearer. Showing those videos "only" to a friend isn't really that relevant.

The friend is quite relevant. There is no expectation of a video stored on a Google system being private to Google employees, but there is an expectation that they will not take that information outside of Google.

> There is no expectation of a video stored on a Google system being private to Google employees

"No expectation" of it not being available to "some" employees maybe, but there is certainly ways to restrict access to only a need-to-know employees. Ideally no employees at all unless some sort of automated monitoring system flags it or there is an outside report.

Just like some social networks, I would "expect" only security and moderation people would have access to profiles but there are always stories of entire companies having unrestricted access.

It's unclear from the article where the access boundaries are in this case.

Re: Nintendo leak:employee accessing private YouTube videos

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Post by randomdata »

mitchdoogle wrote: post #23
pixl97 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Private" doesn't mean what you think it means. Pretty much all these sites can view every bit of content you submit to them for moderation purposes. Many of them state your data can teach learning models. If you really want it private, you don't want it on the cloud/social media sites.

People know what "private" means. If a company calls something private, but it isn't, then they're the ones who need to reconsider what it means, and call their service something else.

Yes, indeed, people do know that when I say "I have some private information to share with you", it means I am going to let another party in on the secret.

Re: Nintendo leak:employee accessing private YouTube videos

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Post by montebicyclelo »

Related side note: I've always had a suspicion that one of the ideas I was working on using Google Colab was viewed by an employee and leaked, because someone wrote a blog post with the exact same idea (very niche) before I got round to releasing mine (I ended up not bothering due to being gazumped), and a Google Colab employee tweeted that blog post. (Puts on tin foil hat.. I stopped using Colab after that.)

Re: Nintendo leak:employee accessing private YouTube videos

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Post by randomdata »

throwaway2016a wrote: post #36
randomdata wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The friend is quite relevant. There is no expectation of a video stored on a Google system being private to Google employees, but there is an expectation that they will not take that information outside of Google.

> There is no expectation of a video stored on a Google system being private to Google employees "No expectation" of it not being available to "some" employees maybe, but there is certainly ways to restrict access to only a need-to-know employees. Ideally no employees at all unless some sort of automated monitoring system flags it or there is an outside report. Just like some social networks, I would "expect" only se…

The private information is shared with Youtube/Google, so the assumption is that anyone who is an agent of Google is in on the secret. If it must only be in the hands of one or a small group of people at Google, you'd best go to those individuals directly, not through the overarching entity of Google as a proxy.

Re: Nintendo leak:employee accessing private YouTube videos

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Post by erremerre »

kris_lujanovic wrote: post #6
thinkmassive wrote: post #2

Title is difficult to decipher, here’s what it’s about: > A new report on old privacy incidents [2017] suggests that at least one Nintendo leak came from a Google employee showing off private YouTube videos to a friend.

its from one of the content moderators. they are all hired and managed through recruiting agency. there was over 10k of us while I was there. and most people are just kids with one week of on boarding doing short term contract. whoever did it is blackballed by biggest recruiting agency in the world. way to get your life crazy difficult over reddit points

My favourite are the one that leaked a tank data on a discord just to prove that they were right.
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