They use the small flash inside the DRM chip in the cartridge to store the telemetry, then the e-waste companies are paid by HP to read and send to the mothership the contents of the chips sent to recycle

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    5 months ago

    Not to defend this, but

    a customer can choose not to store usage data on the memory chip through the control panel.