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Lexmark printers silently spy on you Posted by Pile (6064 views) [E-Mail link] I bet you didn't know that hooking up a printer to your computer would violate your privacy? Computer techs are up in arms about some new software for Lexmark printers which secretly gathers information on usage and reports the data back to an Internet address owned by Lexmark. Reports on the comp.periphs.printers Usenet newsgroup claim that Lexmark has been planting spyware on its customers' PCs in the form of undocumented software that monitors the use of its printers and silently reports back to a Lexmark-owned company website.     Comments   Name: (change name for anonymous posting) Title: Comments:     1 Article displayed.

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