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There was a horror story on Reddit a few years back, cross-posted to HN, where a single employee got their entire company's G Suite account banned for violating
by profmonocle 5y ago
There was a horror story on Reddit a few years back, cross-posted to HN, where a single employee got their entire company's G Suite account banned for violating some Play Store policy using their work account. (as a consumer, not a dev)
The horrifying part was that Google went on to ban every employee's personal account as well because they were "linked" to an account that was banned for TOS violations. Imagine losing access to your email, Android apps, and photo library because a coworker you may not even know broke some TOS.
A Google employee entered the thread and said they were investigating, but notably ignored anyone asking "is it really Google's policy to ban people's personal accounts if their employer gets banned?"
I was pretty happy when my company switched from G Suite to Office 365.
(Amazon allegedly isn't free of these "guilt by association" practices - I've heard stories of people getting permabanned from Amazon because their roommate or family member returned too much stuff, since the delivery address was the same.)