> The dots just make it automatic instead of painstaking. That's significant though. Something that's painstaking only gets done if someone thinks there's a sp

> The dots just make it automatic instead of painstaking. That's significant though. Something that's painstaking only gets done if someone thinks there's a specific, targeted reason to do it. Something that's trivial and automatic gets used broadly without any individualized suspicion unless there are legal limits on doing so. We don't have the sort of clear ethics rules in tech that doctors, lawyers and engineers have, but if we did I think one of them should be that tech should not intentionally work against the interests of its user or owner. That means introducing surveillance features into a printer without telling the buyer they're present is unethical. Using a tracking feature as a selling point, say, to allow an organization to identify the origin of a leaked document is another matter.