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In addition to tracking the printer’s online or offline status, page count, and ink levels, your rented printer will look at the types of documents you’re printing (e.g., PDF, JPG, Word), the types of devices that initiated the print job, “peripheral devices,” and other “metrics” related to the service, the All-In Plan’s terms read. This is on top of the personal information HP collects upon initiating the plan, like your location and your company name (if you have one). By signing up for the service, the terms say, you “grant to HP a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free right to use, copy, store, transmit, modify, create derivative works of and display [your] non-personal data for its business purposes.”

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[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Damn HP! My three year old laptop that I mostly de-crappified was just updated with a pop up selling HP extended warranty. They made it look like a system dialog, there was no “quit”, and “send personal data to HP” was selected by default.

I had to explicitly select to not sending data, explicitly select to make the choice permanent instead of bugging me later, before clicking ok

Never again HP, never again. It’s so sad to see a formerly great engineering company stooping this low as just another sleazy huckster

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

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