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> if you had a bank account shared between your developers, and someone who left the company started using it for money laundering, the entire account would be shut down and you would not be getting that money back. In fact, you might even be investigated by authorities for money laundering since it ran through your account.

I don't see how that analogy applies here. It would be more like if someone who had access to the shared bank account was using their own personal bank account for money laundering.

The developer wasn't breaking ToS on the company account, it was their own personal developer account. Quote from the reddit post:

> Our company used to have several employees with access to the business's Play Console, and one of them recently had done something wrong with "his own personal" Google Play Developer account.

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Yes, but if you read closely, you'll find that OP never actually said that employee "H" was removed from their Google Play account. Instead, they say that "H [had] all permissions removed except on one game which we were still using H.'s consultation on - The app was unpublished later on". So H was still associated with the company's developer account as part of the unpublished game.

Yes? That kind of makes sense if they are still working on something for the company right? Just because they have a side job as a fraud doesn’t make their day job any less legal.

And so what? Did H violate any rules on that specific game?

If you have an employee doing stupid things on their own personal account on their own personal time, should your company’s Google Play developer account also be terminated?

This is one of the many reasons I personally stay as far as possible from anything to do with Google.

What’s next? Loosing access to all our company’s emails and personal photos because someone former employee’s twice-removed cousin decided to try their hands at phishing?

Sounds like a joke, but if even Google employees' families can permanently lose access to their Google account without any recourse[^1], who’s safe?

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24965432

Yes good point. A better analogy would be that an employee you had a few years ago who left the company, started using their personal account for money laundering a few years later, and the bank confiscated/closed the business account, plus their parent's account because dad co-signed on a minor bank account for the person 20 years ago.

My impression from the article is that they were still linked (directly) to the company’s developer account.

If that’s wrong, and they were removed, then you’re completely right and everything I said is very wrong.

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