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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. Windows? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Didn't we all agree the other day that ThinkPads are for running Linux?

    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?

    --
    systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
  3. Re:Who's left? by FranTaylor · · 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