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One thing I'm concerned about is recording equipment leaving identifiable information without us knowing about it.

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[–] grandel@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (9 children)

~~Ive never noticed this or heard that printers do that.~~

~~Is this maybe specific to the USA?~~

Edit: TIL, thank you!

[–] waldo_was_here@piefed.social 6 points 3 days ago

Its called MIC. Or Machine ident. Code , its all around,

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