HP One Agent

[JBRATI]

I have none of the privacy tools suggested and have been corrupted by HP One Agent.

The method I used to remove it is explained higher in this thread and works : HP One Agent did not come back (and Windows updates are still enabled). 

I will NOT buy any HP PC later.

[dbookbinder]

If your method works, great. If you want to try the other method, you can download myHP here:https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9n9phdt62w94?rtc=1&hl=enus&gl=us

If you select Settings (gear icon, if I recall correctly), you can select Privacy and turn off this feature. What they should have done is explained that turning on any of the privacy settings gives them access to the telemetry data HP One Agent collects, but they don't make that clear when you're setting up the PC.

[cokeefe_cat]

Did not work. I found it in task scheduler and disabled it and also disabled it on Task manager startup and services. I re-booted and then checked the Windows reliability History. It is there, unfortunately and shows it was "installed successfully" today.

I think it's a spy tool for HP to gather data and provide to government and other powerful groups. This is where we are at today.

I was going to be buying another computer and will research well before purchase, but best guess is most all companies are doing this.

[dbookbinder]

You have to turn off the privacy settings and then uninstall with Revo Uninstaller. I also got rid of the copies of the HP One Agent executable in the driver store. It's been gone from my computer for something like six weeks and was never installed on a friend's computer I set up, turning off all three privacy settings when prompted by HP's setup programs.

Microsoft also retrieves an enormous amount to telemetry data, as does Google, and so does Amazon, any social media apps, credit card companies, financial institutions, and so on. I turn most of it off when I see it, but I'm sure I can't get even half of it (and sometimes none of it). Security cameras monitor our movements, though not yet on the scale they are used in some Asian countries. And so on.

That's the world we live in -- to get access to their programs and services, many of which are free, we give them data about how we use them. If you want to shut off some of the Windows "spyware," you can run Shutup10 and turn a lot of it off. There are similar programs that erase or turn off Google settings. You can browse with Tor. Etc. But unless you are off the grid and buy everything with cash, you can't avoid being tracked.