Those things aren't particularly news to me. My question is more along the lines of, it seems to me that it's OK (in the sense of being tolerated by the public

Those things aren't particularly news to me. My question is more along the lines of, it seems to me that it's OK (in the sense of being tolerated by the public and legal) when corporations engage in this kind of behavior, but would it be OK if individuals engaged in this kind of behavior against employees of these corporations?