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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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[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's what I was thinking! I never paid for a printer subscription service, and I never will, but they are really telling me I get to pay them to take all my data as well? If this is marketed at businesses in any way its a privacy nightmare, which would probably mean even if they wanted to use them they couldn't due to sharing confidential information. I also wonder how many companies won't know this until they already use them and realize HP has data on them that now holds them liable.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Soon they'll have an ad supported model that prints ads on empty spots on the page and as a banner at the bottom.

[–] StuffYouFear@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh fuck please dont give them ideas

[–] Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

Just wait until your cars infotainment system blasts you with ads when stopped at a red light.