Comment by mindcrime

FWIW, I'll add this as a former Lenovo employee. Lenovo got their hands slapped pretty hard over that deal, and up through the time I was there (near the end of 2019) all of the people in and around my group took consumer privacy very seriously, and were very committed to making sure we never wound up making a mistake like that again.

Now... could upper management still make a decision to push something like that and make it happen? Yes, in principle. There are no guarantees. But based on observed behavior / communications that I saw inside of Lenovo I would not expect anything like that. Still, I can understand a measure of skepticism based on that whole debacle. It was a huge black-eye for the company.