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I'm not sure I'd want information like this public. Doesn't seem safe.

I doubt he keeps his savings in the truck, and very few people are going to risk going to prison over stealing a bed and dresser.

And his truck's parked in a Google parking lot. Where you can assume almost every inch of pavement is on camera. This is probably, disclosure included, one of the safest places to live in the US.

From this guy's perspective, the biggest risk of publicizing his living situation is that maybe someone on Google's legal team learns about it, decides it's a liability concern, and kicks him out of the lot.

The article is from 2015 so kind of moot at this point.

FWIW, for the same reasons above, it's safe to assume nobody lives on Google's campus without Google knowing about it. (And of course, the article mentions Google security checked out the trailer.)

Google's employee perks are heavily built around the idea of keeping their employees on campus as much as possible, an employee living there is almost arguably the penultimate goal.

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