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Printers may do this but it doesn't call the police on them

But let's be honest here: MIC is a truly upsetting privacy violation all on its own.

I'm not a fan of this either but at least it doesn't call the police on me. It places a marker so that a human could track it back to be, sure, but that still requires me to actually try to do something illegal with something I've printed.

I still think it's BS that you can't scan money though and it very much an overreach. Your home printer isn't gonna make a convincing fake anyway.

Well, looks like I'm never buying a new printer.

>Developed by Xerox and Canon in the mid-1980s