FTC Targets Copy Machine Privacy Concerns

itwbennett writes "In a letter to US Representative Ed Markey, FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz said that the FTC has begun contacting copy machine makers, resellers, and office supply stores to inform them about privacy concerns over the images that can be stored on the machines' hard drives and trying to 'determine whether they are warning their customers about these risks ... and whether manufacturers and resellers are providing options for secure copying.'"

Comments

Yes they do need hard drives.

[Colin Smith]

You put a stack of papers into them, hit the copy 10 times button. It has to print 10 stacks of papers. You want to stand there shoving the paper through 10 times while it does it?

 

What about the dots?

[Jah-Wren Ryel]

Of course they don't give a damn about the serial numbers that each copier embeds in every page they print.