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Slashdot reader itwbennett writes: Personal health information on 4.7 million Blue Shield California subscribers was unintentionally shared between Google Analytics and Google Ads between April 2021 and January 2025 due to a misconfiguration error. Security consultant and SANS Institute instructor Brandon Evans points to two lessons to take from this debacle:
Read the documentation of any third party service you sign up for, to understand the security and privacy controls;Know what data is being collected from your organization, and what you don't want shared.
"If there is a concern by the organization that Google Ads would use this information, they should really consider whether or not they should be using a platform like Google Analytics in the first place," Evans says in the article. "Because from a technical perspective, there is nothing stopping Google from sharing the information across its platform...
"Google definitely gives you a great bunch of controls, but technically speaking, that data is within the walls of that organization, and it's impossible to know from the outside how that data is being used."
Read the documentation of any third party service you sign up for, to understand the security and privacy controls;Know what data is being collected from your organization, and what you don't want shared.
"If there is a concern by the organization that Google Ads would use this information, they should really consider whether or not they should be using a platform like Google Analytics in the first place," Evans says in the article. "Because from a technical perspective, there is nothing stopping Google from sharing the information across its platform...
"Google definitely gives you a great bunch of controls, but technically speaking, that data is within the walls of that organization, and it's impossible to know from the outside how that data is being used."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
"Google-owned YouTube's revenue last year was estimated to be $54.2 billion," reports the Los Angeles Times, "which would make it the second-largest media company behind Walt Disney Co., according to a recent report from research firm MoffettNathanson, which called YouTube 'the new king of all media.'"
YouTube, run by Chief Executive Neal Mohan since 2023, accounted for 12% of U.S. TV viewing in March, more than other rival streaming platforms including Netflix and Tubi, according to Nielsen... More people are watching YouTube on TV sets rather than on smartphones and computer screens, consuming more than 1 billion hours on average of YouTube content on TV daily, the company said on its website.
When YouTube first started its founders envisioned it as a dating site, according to the article, "where people would upload videos and score them. When that didn't work, the founders decided to open up the platform for all sorts of videos." And since this was 20 years ago, "Users drove traffic to YouTube by sharing videos on MySpace."
But the article includes stories of people getting rich through YouTube's sharing of ad revenue:
Patrick Starrr, who produces makeup tutorial videos, said he made his first $1 million through YouTube at the age of 25. He left his job at retailer MAC Cosmetics in Florida and moved to L.A...
[Video creator Dhar Mann] started posting videos on YouTube in 2018 with no film background. Mann previously had a business that sold supplies to grow weed. Today, his company, Burbank-based Dhar Mann Studios, operates on 125,000 square feet of production space, employs roughly 200 people and works with 2,000 actors a year on family friendly programs that touch on how students and families deal with topics such as bullying, narcolepsy, chronic inflammatory bowel disease and hoarding. Mann made $45 million last year, according to Forbes estimates. The majority of his company's revenue comes through YouTube.
He tells the Times "I don't think it's just the future of TV — it is TV, and the world is catching on."
And then there's this...
"My mom would always give me so much crap about it — she would say, 'Why do you want to do YouTube?'" said Chucky Appleby, now an executive at MrBeast. His reply: "Mom, you can make a living from this." MrBeast's holding company, Beast Industries, which employs more than 400 people, made $473 million in revenue last year, according to Business Insider. In the last 28 days, MrBeast content — which includes challenges and stunt videos — received 3.6 billion views on YouTube, Appleby said.
Appleby, 28, said he's since bought a Jeep for his mom.
YouTube, run by Chief Executive Neal Mohan since 2023, accounted for 12% of U.S. TV viewing in March, more than other rival streaming platforms including Netflix and Tubi, according to Nielsen... More people are watching YouTube on TV sets rather than on smartphones and computer screens, consuming more than 1 billion hours on average of YouTube content on TV daily, the company said on its website.
When YouTube first started its founders envisioned it as a dating site, according to the article, "where people would upload videos and score them. When that didn't work, the founders decided to open up the platform for all sorts of videos." And since this was 20 years ago, "Users drove traffic to YouTube by sharing videos on MySpace."
But the article includes stories of people getting rich through YouTube's sharing of ad revenue:
Patrick Starrr, who produces makeup tutorial videos, said he made his first $1 million through YouTube at the age of 25. He left his job at retailer MAC Cosmetics in Florida and moved to L.A...
[Video creator Dhar Mann] started posting videos on YouTube in 2018 with no film background. Mann previously had a business that sold supplies to grow weed. Today, his company, Burbank-based Dhar Mann Studios, operates on 125,000 square feet of production space, employs roughly 200 people and works with 2,000 actors a year on family friendly programs that touch on how students and families deal with topics such as bullying, narcolepsy, chronic inflammatory bowel disease and hoarding. Mann made $45 million last year, according to Forbes estimates. The majority of his company's revenue comes through YouTube.
He tells the Times "I don't think it's just the future of TV — it is TV, and the world is catching on."
And then there's this...
"My mom would always give me so much crap about it — she would say, 'Why do you want to do YouTube?'" said Chucky Appleby, now an executive at MrBeast. His reply: "Mom, you can make a living from this." MrBeast's holding company, Beast Industries, which employs more than 400 people, made $473 million in revenue last year, according to Business Insider. In the last 28 days, MrBeast content — which includes challenges and stunt videos — received 3.6 billion views on YouTube, Appleby said.
Appleby, 28, said he's since bought a Jeep for his mom.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Matt Straite Photography has added a photo to the pool:
This is a slightly different take than the typical Arashiyama bamboo image, though I shot that one too. This is a bend in the road (yes, this is an actual public street for cars) that is about a quarter mile from the more popular photo location behind where I shoot this from.
This has been said a hundred times, and if you are studying for a Japan trip you know this- the only way to get this without people is to be there before the sun comes up. So that's just what my son and I did. We got there about an hour before the sun came up. This was actually shot on our way out, the sun was still working its way up, but it cast this neat light around the bend in the road. I actually had to time this one right to get no people in the frame, because the tours were starting to show up at 6am.You can see the sun behind the trees there.
Let me know what you think.
BUENOS AIRES (ANP) - Argentijnen hebben zaterdag massaal afscheid genomen van paus Franciscus tijdens een openluchtmis voor de kathedraal in Buenos Aires. Het Plaza de Mayo was gevuld met jonge mensen en gezinnen die de in de Argentijnse hoofdstad geboren paus de laatste eer kwamen bewijzen.
"Voor veel van ons jonge mensen die ver afstonden van de kerk, bracht de nalatenschap van Franciscus ons dichterbij", zei de 26-jarige Daniela Wenceslao. "Vandaag is Franciscus de belangrijkste persoon in ons land en we willen dit kleine eerbetoon brengen in zijn naam." Eerder zaterdag was in Vaticaanstad de uitvaart en begrafenis van Franciscus, die maandag op 88-jarige leeftijd stierf.
Jorge Garcia Cuerva, de aartsbisschop van Buenos Aires, hield een preek voor duizenden mensen die foto's van Franciscus, witte bloemen en Argentijnse vlaggen vasthielden. "We kunnen zijn wereldwijde leiderschap nog steeds niet helemaal begrijpen of bevatten. We huilen omdat we hem nu al zo erg missen", aldus Cuerva. "We huilen om Franciscus, dat doen we vanuit de grond van ons hart, zonder schaamte."
Alan McIntosh Photography has added a photo to the pool:
Some nice cars on show at the Concours D'Elegance held in Toowoomba.
Alan McIntosh Photography has added a photo to the pool:
Some nice cars on show at the Concours D'Elegance held in Toowoomba.
Alan McIntosh Photography has added a photo to the pool:
Some nice cars on show at the Concours D'Elegance held in Toowoomba.