print email comment close Is Your Printer Spying on You? URL: http://www.eff.org/issues/printers Description: October 2005 article about how "the US government has succeeded in persuading some color laser printer manufacturers to encode each page with identifying information," and the implications of this "yellow dot" marking system on privacy concerns. Includes a white paper, directions for printing test sheets, a dot decoding guide, a list of printers that do or don't print tracking dots, and links to more recent information. From the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Publisher: Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Extra Keywords color laser printers Library of Congress Subject Headings: Color computer printers Digital watermarking Electronic surveillance -- United States LII Database Information: Record 19501 created by Maria Brandt on 10/30/2005 Last modification on 08/28/2008 Published: 11/03/2005   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/19501