It's important to document and archive the contents for liability reasons, but the takeaway here is that you should remember that the laptop belongs to the company and you have zero rights to privacy on it, so conduct yourself appropriately.
Unless this guy was sexually harassing people, I'm curious how this is going to protect anyone from any kind of liability.
>you should remember that the laptop belongs to the company and you have zero rights to privacy on it, so conduct yourself appropriately.
Yes, but as others have mentioned, just because the company has the right to do that doesn't mean it's either ethical OR good. No one here was asserting the right to privacy on company owned hardware.