In general there might be other reasons you can think of that he would do that, but at Google he would have been told where and when he's allowed to store & ret

In general there might be other reasons you can think of that he would do that, but at Google he would have been told where and when he's allowed to store & retrieve company data. It would have certainly been a fireable offence for him to copy company data to a memory card. You're not even allowed to store source code on your work laptop.