Does it? As pointed out, this could mean a lot of things and I suspect the majority of Google’s tech employees are “guilty” of violating this particular guideline, including the execs and the investigators involved in this case. Getting “sensitive” data on a personal device is actually really easy to do and just goes overlooked until they want a reason to fire you.

But the part of this that stands out to me is that they are giving this much detail to the press. The standard reply is always that “personnel matters are confidential” even when the person being fired has been publicly accused of something criminal. But for this case Google chose to make specific public allegations. Now why do you think they would do that?