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JudgeDekker said:

My advice is go buy a printer from a different manufacturer. The HP smart printer app now requires you to have a HP cloud services account, and in order to have one of these you have to give HP your phone number and receive a code via SMS. That is theft of my personal data, which they will sell and abuse. I can't stop them. All I can do is resolve to never buy another HP product as long as I live, and I advise everyone else to do the same.

They can't use it if you are wearing your tinfoil hat when you sign up

RumRat

It can only get worse...They could put your name, number and address in a big book. Then, if they made that available to anyone and they could find your number if they wanted to contact you....Perhaps call it - The Phone Book.   

Neil_Jones

RumRat said:

It can only get worse...They could put your name, number and address in a big book. Then, if they made that available to anyone and they could find your number if they wanted to contact you....Perhaps call it - The Phone Book.   

Or you could get yourself into another big book - that anybody can search at your local archives.  I think they call it The Electoral Register.

The edited one you can opt out of, yes, but you can't opt out of the main one.

Also just think, in 100 years time Joe Public will know where you lived and what you did in 2011..  Not that you're going to have any say in the matter by that point but...

[Deleted User]

I have used their free service for years which gives 15 sheets per month and if you go over your limit its only 1.99 I think, now  I'm on the £1.99 anyway

IvanOpinion

JudgeDekker said:

My advice is go buy a printer from a different manufacturer. The HP smart printer app now requires you to have a HP cloud services account, and in order to have one of these you have to give HP your phone number and receive a code via SMS. That is theft of my personal data, which they will sell and abuse. I can't stop them. All I can do is resolve to never buy another HP product as long as I live, and I advise everyone else to do the same.

Don't be silly.