July 15, 2008
Popular Color Printers May Enable Surveillance
Color printers are growing in popularity as the price declines. Most consumers do not know that when they print documents using color printers that a pattern of yellow dots invisible to the eye reveals the device's serial number. A serial number may be used to trace printed documents back to the printer used. If the printer was purchase using a credit card instead of cash then the document may be attributed rightly or wrongly to a particular person or entity.
Printer dots raise privacy concerns, USA Today, July 14, 2008
Posted by EPIC at July 15, 2008 10:51 AM
