[nitrogen]

Yes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Tech...

Plus the laptop "anti-theft" BIOSes that phone home whose name I cannot recall.

[bob1029]

Computrace?

[WarOnPrivacy]

That'd be it. My Thinkpads let me permanently disable it.

[MintelIE]

That's what the BIOS claims anyway...