People really shouldn't use their corp laptops for personal things. I know they do, but there really shouldn't be any legitimate expectation of privacy on your

People really shouldn't use their corp laptops for personal things. I know they do, but there really shouldn't be any legitimate expectation of privacy on your corporate laptop; not only do you sign a contract stating as such, but anything you create on there (on company time or not) is company IP, whether related to your work or not. California is very careful about protecting employee IP if done on personal time, but only if done without corporate devices. IANAL, etc.