Consider how many people just use webmail, and don't use a client such as Thunderbird to keep a local (as in on your own computer) copy of all their emails...

You mean the social media that's locked down for friends and family only?

It's still surveillance and analysis. No thanks.

...and requires Steam install.

The four 1.5-megawatt turbines die after a year?

Not just "pick things that work natively with what you want".

Pick stuff without any mandatory web connection for operation.

Otherwise a forced firmware update could change the functionality, such as change a non-internet feature to an internet-only feature, with subscription.

Not just hardware, look at the games industry.

It will get bought by a government to quietly silo the most difficult to detect exploits for government surveillance purposes.

Someone who eats a hotdog a day clearly has a habitually poor diet. The hotdog is one symptom.

It is not in HP's interest to instigate more trust into a used computer purchase. This serves to help the used computer market, at the expense of the new computer market.

HP is not altruistic.

So what is the monitoring data really being used for?

I suspect that this is similar to the yellow dots on colo(u)r printouts. The stored data timestamps the computer usage (excuse: it's a 'wear measure'), and this may be very useful evidence of a suspect's activity.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.towerforensics.co....

In China, being an engineer gets respect.

In UK, the title 'engineer' can mean the person clearing out the toaster crumbs to fix the burning smell.

Better would be a setting that stops your phone connecting to an unencrypted network.

A Stingray may be the strongest signal in order to get switched to automatically, but it won't be the only signal of adequate strength.

...but the fact that a suspect normally did and suddenly didn't has been used as evidence against them.

The vaccination changes your metabolism so that sweet food/drink tastes horrible.

"Make America Healthy Again" -> "Monitor Americans' Health Always".