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+issuer: https://accounts.google.com
+
+# staging-images: not in use
+# prod-images: insights-publisher-sa@prod-images-c6e5.iam.gserviceaccount.com
+subject: "101826719708554282120"
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+  metadata: read