HP’s 'All-In' Printer Rental Watches Everything You Print, Tells HP All About It

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HP’s 'All-In' Printer Rental Watches Everything You Print, Tells HP All About It - Lemmy.World

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.”

Good way to get banned from large corporations. I know my compliance department isn’t going to trust language like that.
I imagine this is only for consumer-grade printers. HP’s business-class devices are usually purchased under a contract.
If anyone seriously believes HP will develop two copies of operating software, one with “send everything to HP” and one without, they are delusional.
You’ve never worked in the IT industry, have you?