> Why would you ever do such a thing on a device controlled by your employer?

It is in fact common to do personal things on work PCs.

The senior manager spending 5 days visiting that foreign office is logging into his personal netflix account, and video calling his wife and kids. He ain't carrying a second laptop to do it.

That middle manager, with a report who needs a widget delivered tomorrow, and purchasing aren't fast enough to get the order in? He's logging into his personal account and paying with his personal card, then making an expense claim.

That in-office worker wearing headphones? Good chance he's logged into his personal music streaming account. Maybe he uses youtube music, so he's logged into his entire personal google account too.

And the sales guy who's constantly stuck in hotels for business travel? Oh boy you don't want to look his 11pm web browsing.

It was a rhetorical question; I am aware that people do stupid things with their employers' hardware. More directly, my point was that the supposed privacy questions raised by the AI-training keyboard tracking system do not matter much, because it has never been safe to do anything which requires personal privacy on work devices in the first place.

There are other reasons one might reasonably object to keystroke tracking, of course.

I may be the exception, but if I plan to work on non-work related stuff while traveling I absolutely take my personal laptop. I've done this when traveling to my HQ, as well as taking both work and personal laptops on personal vacations.

You seem to have selected specifically people who are not likely to know the full implications of their behavior, and I agree with you.

I don't even like doing stuff like this on my phone.