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<div class="posted"> Posted at <a
href="http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2005_10.php#004064">07:48 AM</a>
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<h3 class="title">Secret Code in Color Printers Lets Government Track
You</h3>
<p>Tiny Dots Show Where and When You Made Your Print</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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WJM
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Bill McIver
e-Government / e-Citizen Group
National Research Council Canada Institute for Information Technology
e-mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bill.mciver@nrc.gc.ca">bill.mciver@nrc.gc.ca</a>
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