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culzean

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Is your printer spying on you
« on: July 01, 2021, 06:27:36 PM »
Found this today,  it is proper scary that every page you print includes the serial number of printer and date and time it was printed,  but is tiny yellow dots invisible to the naked eye..

https://www.instructables.com/Yellow-Dots-of-Mystery-Is-Your-Printer-Spying-on-/
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WelshBeauty

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Re: Is your printer spying on you
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2021, 09:08:37 PM »
Surely we should decide what meta-data is contained within our documents?
Shocking, next you'll be telling us the BBC are forcing elderly people to buy a TV licence.
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Re: Is your printer spying on you
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2021, 09:24:22 PM »
My black and white laser printer doesn't do that.
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