Lenovo Collects Usage Data On ThinkPad, ThinkCentre and ThinkStation PCs

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @07:53AM 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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Windows? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-09-22 07:59 · Score: 5, Insightful

Didn't we all agree the other day that ThinkPads are for running Linux?
Re:Who's left? by FranTaylor · 2015-09-22 11:24 · Score: 5, Insightful

"Somehow, we got into a discussion of the responsibility of management. Holden made the point that management's responsibility is to the shareholders – that's the end of it. And I objected. I said, 'I think you're absolutely wrong. Management has a responsibility to its employees, it has a responsibility to its customers, it has a responsibility to the community at large.' And they almost laughed me out of the room."
- David Packard