It would be far more damaging for someone to access the webcam on my girlfriend's laptop vs. the data on it. She has no access to any useful financial informati

It would be far more damaging for someone to access the webcam on my girlfriend's laptop vs. the data on it. She has no access to any useful financial information or accounts, but images captured in her hotel room during a work trip could easily be used to blackmail her. It would also be trivial for someone in her company's IT department to do so, and the same is true at many other companies (and schools). The software that many IT departments use to monitor company-owned computers + prevent theft allows them to access any aspect of the computer on demand, without the user's knowledge.