Oh, this is good. Kinkos owns me now.
“[M]ost digital copiers manufactured in the past five years have disk drives the same kind of data-storage mechanism found in computers to reproduce documents. As a result, the seemingly innocuous machines that are commonly used to spit out copies of tax returns for millions of Americans can retain the data being scanned. If the data on the copier’s disk aren’t protected with encryption or an overwrite mechanism, and if someone with malicious motives gets access to the machine, industry experts say sensitive information from original documents could get into the wrong hands.”
Building forgetting into technologies, The End of Cyberspace, April 23, 2007
