On some axes, sure. On others: there is a basic social contract that underpins...well...society. And it's telling, to me, that Google is conflating "following the law" and "what might possibly cost us rounding errors in additional benefits" in the documentation quoted in the Guardian piece, to be honest: they're tipping their hand here.

And I don't think it's nearly as murky as some folks want it to look. Let's be real: more often than not, when somebody's doing something dirty, they know it's dirty.