re Copy Machine keeps a copy, after you get yours

[Dave Farber <dfarber () me com>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Peter Capek <capek () ieee org>
> Date: April 22, 2010 9:06:11 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: Re: [IP] Copy Machine keeps a copy, after you get yours

> It seems to me there's an additional issue/risk here.   My public library lets patrons use copiers for a fee; that's 
> very common.  If unbeknownst to the library, the copier is retaining a copy of every original page which a patron 
> copies, and that is later disclosed (suppose it is an income tax return), who is liable?   I have yet to learn 
> whether the user manual for any offending copier includes a warning about this. I'm also puzzled why the copier 
> manufacturers would build their machines in this way, rather than erasing the data which is no longer needed.   I 
> wonder if *their* lawyers knew about this capability in the products.
>
> Reminds me of the camera which the CIA installed in a copier in the Russian embassy, probably in the 60s.
>
>            Peter Capek
>
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