What gets mandated in NY gets sold everywhere. A surveillance requirement for 3D printers, buried in NY's budget bill, will be detrimental to innovation everywhere. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/stop-new-yorks-attack-3d-printing
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@eff This is why we need more people who understand tech policy and are against surveillance in the New York State legislature, and to educate the current politicians there.
We will try to do our part to raise awareness of this issue, thank you for bringing this to our attention with this post and all your excellent research! The technological illiteracy of so many politicians, and the way things like this get buried inside long must-pass bills like the New York State budget, is a massive problem. Although we have so many other problems that it is a triage situation and things like this get deprioritized even by most people who care about these issues.
If only more politicians listened to the Electronic Frontier Foundation...
@eff They try it because they think they can. Because they think the defence will be weak.
Imagine trying to mandate spyware on CNC machines. It would never fly. Which is why they won’t try.
Thank you, Electronic Frontier Foundation, for putting light on this nonsense (blocking 3d printers from making "forbidden designs").
I share concerns about wackos' fascination with printed guns, but there have to be better (less risky, less expansive, more effective) ways to restrict ghost guns.
If they want to make a law that will achieve some good for society, how about a law against "omnibus bills" (sneaking legislators' irrelevant pet projects into big bills such as budgets)?
