• Docus@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    So the yellow dots became public knowledge 20 years ago, and other than a one liner that other tracking methods may exist, nothing about these other methods seems to be published. Surely the three letter agencies haven’t given up on tracking.

    • ramble81@lemm.ee
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      7 hours ago

      I thought they were unique per printer not just type. More akin to a serial number instead of a model number.

      • kersploosh@sh.itjust.worksOP
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        6 hours ago

        That is my understanding. And I assume the dot patterns are made by printers worldwide. The article mentions Dutch law enforcement using them, and German researchers studying them.

  • AnonymousCoward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 hours ago

    One of the many reasons why I lost all faith in a person when I realize they’re a conspiracy theorist.

    The goddamn government tracking plans are on fucking wikipedia and they’re worried about chips injected in a vaccine from some twitter shitpost.

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      5 hours ago

      Yeah, this was an actual secret conspiracy for over 20 years, though. This is an example of a real collusion between global governments and corporations to track members of the public.