What is a drawback of MIC?

• A. Whatever information about you that you're printing is not in your control.
• B. It guarantees that you own all printed data.
• C. It prevents anyone from tracing printed documents.
• D. It makes counterfeiting impossible.

Answer: (A)

The main idea is privacy and control over your personal information when information about you is processed and printed by a system. A drawback of MIC is that the system can attach data about you to what you print and then store, log, or share that information. Once that material or its metadata exists, you may not be able to fully control or remove it, which means you lose some say over how your data is used or who can see it. This is why it’s a privacy concern: you can’t reliably keep all aspects of what’s printed about you under your own control. The other statements aren’t accurate reflections of MIC’s nature—ownership isn’t guaranteed, tracing isn’t inherently prevented, and counterfeiting isn’t made impossible by MIC.