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Probably so, but at least my company can't MITM and log all my traffic.

Agreed. The presumption should be that anything on a work computer is visible to, logged, and retained by your employer.

It was a public case, but the essentially unanimous Supreme Court opinion in City of Ontario v. Quon [0, 2010] shows what expectations of privacy you should have on any work devices -- none.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Ontario_v._Quon

Unsurprisingly, the EU has a different idea about employee's privacy when using a work computer.

Reasonable or limited private use of a work computer remains private.

https://edps.europa.eu/data-protection/data-protection/refer...

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