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Monday, November 14, 2005

Ramasastry: Printers and Privacy Why Government-Sponsored Printer Identification Raises Serious Privacy Concerns

Anita Ramasastry's most recent column on FindLaw is about the controvertial printer tracking technology that was recently decoded by EFF: FindLaw's Writ - Ramasastry: Printers and Privacy Why Government-Sponsored Printer Identification Raises Serious Privacy Concerns.

Posted by privacylawyer at 11/14/2005 06:23:00 pm
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