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 guy HP: Trying to save the planet by making their printers so bad no one wants to print anymore. 👍
Good way to get banned from large corporations. I know my compliance department isn’t going to trust language like that.
The mere fact that HP is demonstrating they can do this, even if they pinky swear they won’t do it for corporate or business clients means that any business worth their salt will avoid buying HP products.
I would assume this offer is meant for the lowly peasants like us, not other big corpos. Though most likely the printer industry is struggling, and they are gasping at straws, trying to mine data in the hope they can monetize it somehow
I imagine this is only for consumer-grade printers. HP’s business-class devices are usually purchased under a contract.
TIL HP stands for Hostile to Privacy.
You’d have to be a complete mental deficient to go out and consciously decide to buy a brand new HP product in 2024. Every single day it’s more bad publicity for HP and yet they don’t receive any consumer backlash that lasts longer than the breath required to complain about it.
Ok boys, 10,000 copies of goatse. Grayscale to save money.
“You are out of magenta”
“I have a black and white printer.”
Fuck you, out of magenta.
I’m still all-in on never owning a
HPprinter again. I don’t need this in my lifeI can’t foresee any way that could get abused to hell and back. No sir. Not even a little bit.
Unless you are a business getting printers on commercial leases, do yourself a favour and just buy a Brother laser printer and stop having issues with printers and start saving money as well.
Alternatively, if you print as rarely as I do, just go to Staples or a print shop. Cheaper and I don’t need to set aside any space for a printer.
Can confirm, my brother laser printer has lasted 14 years and the current toner cartridge was purchased 6 years ago.
Time to snif out the packets and replace them with cool things like
“BDSM_training_Gangbang_at_HPHQ_tuesday.pdf”
And the like. We could even just flood their database until they decide to block us.
I haven’t owned a printer in, like, 10 years and I know I’m not an outlier. This sort of shit isn’t necessarily going to bring me back into the fold.
To pay for this privilege too? HP is insane. Avoid like the plague.
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.
Soon they’ll have an ad supported model that prints ads on empty spots on the page and as a banner at the bottom.
Oh fuck please dont give them ideas
Just wait until your cars infotainment system blasts you with ads when stopped at a red light.
Do “printers” have an approval rating? Because I bet it’s low.
I’ll stick to my Brother laser printer. Bought it during the pandemic and still haven’t been through an entire toner cartridge. Never had an issue printing either.
I got it for work documents that needed signed and mailed and such. And I like to print out flow charts and the like for big projects so I can reference them without having to pull them up digitally.
So, public espionage, no one sane should accept this behavior for something they paid for.
I’ve yet to meet one person who I think is dumb enough to subscribe to this.
So what happens if on the off chance someone decides to use the government purchasing system for COTS purchases and convince the SCIF to use one of these HP printers, and then try printing TS//SCI or other highly classified national security documents on the printer? Asking for a friend.
Honest answer? The person doing the printing is likely penalized at best, and HP get a slap on the wrist at worst.
