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They explicitly stated that they do not.
They have a lot of rules around data control and privacy that are followed internally because the engineers care to toe the line of public statements.
For the last three decades, tech companies have been operating in a "Ask for forgiveness, not permission" mentality.
Microsoft didn't get such a large monopoly by playing fair. Neither did Google, Amazon, Uber, etc.
They have always said one thing, the courts found it to be inaccurate, and then they go "Oops" and pay $500 million "cost of doing business" while making 1000+ billion.
Except you can have one account to cover all those Google services. Meaning it must be trivial for Alphabet/Google to do the same.
Just because your average engineer isn't allowed to, doesn't mean they can't do it at "special requests", like law enforcement or "research".
To put it another way, it's to much potential power to entrust with a single company.