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Is there a notice/agreement tells customers there are tracking dots before buying? If there isn't, how is this not illegal?
by 4684499 9y ago
Is there a notice/agreement tells customers there are tracking dots before buying? If there isn't, how is this not illegal?
- matthewmacleod 9y agoIt's hard to imagine what law this would break.
- 1001101 9y agoBy the same token, what is compelling them to do this? A sense of patriotic duty? The kindness of their hearts? There's a lot of work that would go into designing, implementing, and testing this. Then you've got logistics in manufacturing. That's time and money.
- gumby 9y ago> By the same token, what is compelling them to do this? A sense of patriotic duty? The GSA Schedules: https://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/197989 https://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/197989
- schoen 9y agoThe original motivation seems to have been a deal between a printer industry association and a central banks' association, perhaps as an alternative to threatened legislation, although we've never been able to get ahold of the details of that deal.
- schoen 9y agoSometimes, for example https://duckduckgo.com/?q=docucolor+"not+visible+under+normal+viewing+conditions" https://duckduckgo.com/?q=docucolor+"not+visible+under+norma... We originally found that in German, https://duckduckgo.com/?q=docucolor+"unter+normalen+bedingungen+nicht+sichtbar" https://duckduckgo.com/?q=docucolor+"unter+normalen+bedingun... However, I don't think that most printers currently disclose this, at least for sales in the U.S.
- monochromatic 9y agoWhat law do you suppose this breaks? Illegal isn't defined as "something I dislike."
- alayne 9y agoprivacy / trade laws / 14th amendment equal protection / due process It definitely does not feel right that some non government entity is deciding to encoding personally identifying information about you without public oversight.