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Lenovo Collects Usage Data On ThinkPad, ThinkCentre and ThinkStation PCs

Posted by samzenpus on from the fool-me-once dept.

New submitter LichtSpektren writes: Following up Lenovo's blunders regarding the Superfish malware and altered BIOS, Michael Horowitz at ComputerWorld reports that a refurbished ThinkPad he bought includes Lenovo spyware under the guise of "Customer Feedback". After some digging around, he found the following in a support document: "Lenovo says here that all ThinkPad, ThinkCentre and ThinkStation PCs, running Windows 7 and 8.1, may upload 'non-personal and non-identifying information about Lenovo software application usage' to 112.2o7.net."

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  1. Re:Windows? by SJHillman · · Score: 5, Funny

    For the same reason they ship in styrofoam. You want something nice and bloaty with no real substance to keep it safe.

  2. Not on my laptop! by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lenovo Collects Usage Data On ThinkPad, ThinkCentre and ThinkStation PCs

    See, this kind of crap is why I always wipe new laptops and install a fresh copy of Windows 10.

    What?

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  3. Re:Peoples (I)Republic(A)ofChina(Y) by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 3, Funny

    You can take the laptop out of China, but you can't take the Chinese out of the laptop.

    The main problem with Chinese laptops is that an hour later you want to buy another one.

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