Tell HN: Google Cloud lets anyone add you to a project without your permission

Re:Tell HN: Google Cloud lets anyone add you to a project wi... by foreverCarlos on Saturday December 31, 2022 @12:22AM (#34193856)

Over the past serval months I realized with certainty that I should never use my personal Gmail account for any other Google services.

Gmail is Gmail only, for everything else create separate Google accounts you are not afraid to lose.

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Re:Tell HN: Google Cloud lets anyone add you to a project wi... by jasonjayr on Saturday December 31, 2022 @12:55AM (#34194017)

That's not good enough, they relate multiple accounts too, sometimes incorrectly.

IIRC a company got their project booted from the play store, because one of the developers accounts got a black mark.

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Re:Tell HN: Google Cloud lets anyone add you to a project wi... by foreverCarlos on Saturday December 31, 2022 @01:01AM (#34194052)

I don’t think Google will resort to matching my accounts by IP address or some fingerprinting technique.

In any case, I am in the process of migrating off Gmail too, it just takes a lot of effort. But to your point, I should probably also download all my gmail data and archive it just in case.

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Re:Tell HN: Google Cloud lets anyone add you to a project wi... by kngspook on Saturday December 31, 2022 @03:42AM (#34194736)

Google Takeout is actually reasonably robust. I create/download one of those fairly regularly.

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