[kotaKat]

The simple solution is to "not write your private thoughts on someone else's loaned paper".

Keep your personal life to personal paper and personal devices. Don't write your life out onto something subject to discovery by someone else's legal department.

[bombcar]

The key is that your personal private papers may be subject to discovery via your employer, your life, and more.

Especially if you're a C-level exec.

Policies about document and media handling are important if you're up where discovery is an active possibility. Or "have nothing to hide."

[kotaKat]

The only reason this diary hit the discovery towers was because he wrote and kept it on the company laptop. If he didn't, this would have never come to light.

Carry two phones, carry two laptops.