> Their employer knowing that the kids need to be picked up from soccer at 6 is a non-issue.

That's great and fine, until anything non-trivial in your life happens. Illness, relationship drama, recruiter conversation, off-hand low-context remarks to/from friends...

The corporate suckware hoovers up the data, and a) exposes you professionally to the company's whims of self-protection, and b) exposes the company legally to your personal imperfections.

Don't cross the streams. It would be bad.

One reason is that if your employer is sued your personal data/devices can get tied up in the discovery process.

How often does that really happen though, I’ve heard this argument so many times but not really the real impact it has from a real incident.

Don't forget you don't own your work device and could lose access to it with zero notice. It's a personal pet peeve of mine that MacOS has no way to install with a "forget everything about iCloud" option. I love it for my personal devices but on a work device you quickly notice how it's got it's little hooks all over the OS.

There is an MDM option to disable iCloud, but I'm not sure if its possible to toggle without enrolling macOS into a managed system.

I worked with someone who uploaded private git repositories to his email before quitting. People are not very smart.

It's best to completely remove that avenue / temptation anyway, IMO. You can handle personal stuff on your phone. Logging in your work PC is asking for trouble.

HN readers seem to be very concerned about spies and perverts that might get caught because they naively used X tech.