May 23, 2026
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Every color laser printer in America secretly encodes your identity on every page you print. Here’s what those dots say.

The Secret Service asked printer companies to embed invisible tracking dots on every page, starting in the 1980s. The dots reveal your printer’s serial number, the date and exact time of printing. The program never stopped.