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HP wants you to pay up to $36/month to rent a printer that it monitors (arstechnica.com)

submitted 8 months ago by readbeanicecream@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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HP launched a subscription service today that rents people a printer, allots them a specific amount of printed pages, and sends them ink for a monthly fee. HP is framing its service as a way to simplify printing for families and small businesses, but the deal also comes with monitoring and a years-long commitment.

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[–] debanqued@beehaw.org 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

from the article:

Subject to the terms of this Agreement, You hereby 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.

Holy shit. I wonder if HP is feeding customers’ data to an #AI machine to exploit in some way. It doesn’t even seem to be limited to what people print. HP’s software package is probably not just a printer driver. But even if it is, a driver runs in the kernel space, so IIUC there’s no limit to what data it can mine.

[–] rammer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 months ago

So if you print your book on this printer. A book that you have written and are about to send to a publisher. HP can take it and sell it. And you are paying them for the privilege.

That is a HARD NO from me.

[–] Kakaofruchttafel@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago

But... But... All my data is personal data...