Does my little brother computer got a spy software in it?

So, I went to the store to pick the school laptop for my little brother who's a minor. I told the employee to not bother setting up the unit but he insisted, telling me that the government who is giving away the computers instruct stores to install a program on the laptop in order to verify the purchase with the S/N of each unit. I didn't think much of it back then.

Now my brother is telling me that in …

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