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claralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.social
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Friends don't let friends buy any HP product.

♲ Dr. Brad Rosenheim - 2024-10-03 21:14:30 GMT

My wife is on the phone with HP and looks exasperated. We had a working printer that, in my opinion, was surveiling us too much. It knew when our ink cartridges were almost empty and had our credit card number so it could send us new cartridges when we needed them. My wife loved that because ink cartridges always go dry right when you need them, and it was getting more difficult to find the proper cartridges. Yes, the printer knew if we installed third party cartridges.But, the credit card on file just passed the expiration date, and the printer magically stopped working. That is why she is calling. And, of course, they are telling us it is obsolete and we should big a new one with even MORE surveillance! That, folks, is #enshittification

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Dr. Brad Rosenheim (@Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.social)

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girlofthesea@diasporasocial.net
Girl Of The

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Printers Tracking Dots

Copies or printouts of documents with confidential personal information, for example health care information, account statements, tax declaration or balance sheets, can be traced to the owner of the printer and the inception date of the documents can be revealed.
Machine Identification Code
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code
Can people track what you print?

“Yes, most companies have their printers configured through a print server that keeps track of the user and the documents they print,” reads an article from Workplace Round Table. “Even smaller companies have ways to investigate your printer activity without an IT department.”Apr 6, 2023

Machine Identification Code - Wikipedia

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anonymiss@despora.de
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#HP #printers try to send data back to HP about your devices and what you print

source: https://robertheaton.com/2019/09/15/hp-printers-send-data-on-what-you-print-back-to-hp/

In summary, HP wants its #printer to collect all kinds of #data that a reasonable person would never expect it to. This includes #metadata about your devices, as well as information about all the documents that you print, including timestamps, number of pages, and the application doing the printing (HP state that they do stop short of looking at the contents of your documents).

#surveillance #news #fail #privacy #software #economy

HP printers try to send data back to HP about your devices and what you print | Robert Heaton

Last week my in-laws politely but firmly asked me to set up their new HP printer. I protested that I’m completely clueless about that sort of thing, despite my tax-return-job-title of “software engineer”. Still remonstrating, I was gently bundled...

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