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FTC Targets Copy Machine Privacy Concerns

Posted by kdawson on from the hotting-up dept.

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.'"

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  1. Eleventy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But this one goes to eleven...

    1. Re:Eleventy... by the_fat_kid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      couldn't you just make ten louder?

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  2. Just so you know it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Goatse was actually me, I just couldn't afford a regular colonoscopy

  3. Sooner or later by shadowbearer · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      we'll have to accept the fact that anything that is created by a human being can be reproduced, copied and distributed by a human being.

      Technology just makes it easier, that's all. The printing press certainly did.

      Boo hoo, whine, whine, whine.

      And yes, I've produced copyrighted works that I've made money off of. I don't get in a fluff if I don't get rich off of them, tho.

      0.0

      SB

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