[WSIS CS-Plenary] Privacy -- Color printers & tracking

[Bill McIver]

New news from the EFF:


Posted at 07:48 AM <http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2005_10.php#004064>


      Secret Code in Color Printers Lets Government Track You

Tiny Dots Show Where and When You Made Your Print

San Francisco - A research team led by the Electronic Frontier 
Foundation (EFF) recently broke the code behind tiny tracking dots that 
some color laser printers secretly hide in every document.

The U.S. Secret Service admitted that the tracking information is part 
of a deal struck with selected color laser printer manufacturers, 
ostensibly to identify counterfeiters. However, the nature of the 
private information encoded in each document was not previously known.

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More at  http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2005_10.php#004063

WJM
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Bill McIver  
e-Government / e-Citizen Group
National Research Council Canada  Institute for Information Technology
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