[nexuist]

This should be illegal, or at the very least, Google should be required to reimburse any fees incurred as a result of this misstep. When you hand over your bank account to an organization, especially one as legitimate as Google, you are doing so with the implicit trust that they will charge you what you expect them to charge you for. Breaching this trust should have consequences, just like individuals failing to pay their rent has consequences.

[Gibbon1]

Maybe google should just get banned from doing wire transfers to and from personal bank accounts for a couple of years.

Just like everyone else that fucks up like this.

[mindslight]

What should be illegal is overdraft fees themselves. They are nothing but a flimsy pretext to steal money from customer accounts.

It is possible to find checking accounts that will treat negative balances as simple interest-only loans. At least one of the major online banks does this if you set it up that way.