[viraptor]

> The machine is mine and I do work on it.

> My employer doesn’t dictate how I get things done and paid for the machine I want.

That is very much not your machine. If your employer ever gets sued, or runs into some investigation, or some internal dispute escalates enough, all the data on it is now likely available for them for review.

Given large enough company and enough people, you'll get that "preserve documents for discovery" email one day. It happens outside of the US too.