@feoh I think its mainly employers/businesses to blame, In an ideal world end users would know better, but also in an ideal world end users also would be able to trust their employer and vice versa.
If your wife or someone actually had malicious intent to keep that data after being terminated, they could easily prevent a remote wipe by just keeping the thing in a Faraday bag till theyβre outside of signal range. Like so many things we accept in society today its little more then security theater at the expense of honest actors who are too trusting of corporations.