> “This is an isolated, ‘one-of-a-kind occurrence’ that has never before occurred with any of Google Cloud’s clients globally,” Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian a

> “This is an isolated, ‘one-of-a-kind occurrence’ that has never before occurred with any of Google Cloud’s clients globally,” Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian and UniSuper CEO Peter Chun said in a joint statement obtained by The Guardian May 8. “This should not have happened. Google Cloud has identified the events that led to this disruption and taken measures to ensure this does not happen again.” I'm skeptical. I think this is yet another symptom of the rot that has set in at Google - the controls preventing IC employees from unilaterally causing catastrophic damage are getting dismantled in the name of... who knows what. It's likely that any firewall between ads and other services are getting weaker and I wouldn't be surprised if we get some scandal where Google uses Workspace client data for training or ad targeting. We've already seen similar weakening of the walls with the Chrome team come out during the ongoing anti-trust case. I opened the article assuming it was some form of user error by UniSuper IT but no, it sounds like a completely internal Google problem if the CEO of cloud decided to weigh in and assure everyone that it's a "one-of-a-kind" occurrence.