HP installing spyware driver on hardware
 

Touchpoint Analytics Client reinvents giving.

HP, whose Christmas motto is "reinvent giving," has been installing a telemetry client on its customers’ computers — and it isn’t offering any warning, or asking permission.

The maker of printer ink which is hand-milked from the teats of a rare breed of squid which is why is it is so expensive [we are making that up] says it “harvests telemetry information that is used by HP Touchpoint’s analytical services.” Apparently, it’s HP Touchpoint Analytics Client version 4.0.2.1435.

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