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Bugs in the bins
lee celtic:
Found this while looking for somthing else (as you do) ;) going out to check mine now :twisted:
interesting read. Big brother is watching 8-[
Guess what I found in my Wheelie Bin this morning?
Alerted by this article:
Germans plant bugs in our wheelie bins | the Daily Mail
Electronic spy 'bugs' have been secretly planted in hundreds of thousands of household wheelie bins.
The gadgets - mostly installed by companies based in Germany - transmit information about the contents of the bins to a central database which then keeps records on the waste disposal habits of each individual address.
Already some 500,000 bins in council districts across England have been fitted with the bugs - with nearly all areas expected to follow suit within the next couple of years.
Until now, the majority of bins have been altered without the knowledge of their owners. In many cases, councils which ordered the installation of the devices did not even debate the proposals publicly.
The official reason for the bugs is to 'improve efficiency' and settle disputes between neighbours over wheelie-bin ownership. But experts say the technology is actually intended to enable councils to impose fines on householders who exceed limits on the amount of non-recyclable waste they put out. New powers for councils to do this are expected to be introduced by the Government shortly.
So I went outside and tipped my bin over to have a look under the lip at the top - and here is what I found...
Details on the bug's abilities are here.http://www.deister.com/content/english/ident/bitech/index.htm
Lincs niva:
I assume there will be a few binmen get in in the neck soon then,Alot of people around here dont agrre with wheelie bin's im sure this will just top it off..We already get enough grief on our rounds
Cheers Gav
wormster:
Gerr, <edit> what is it with big brother, :police:
we have more "security" cameras than any other country in the EU, yet street crime is rising, :evil:
the government wants to put trackers in our vehicles and make us carry ID cards and now this................ :evil:
when will "they" STOP poking their noses into our inalinable civil rights! :doh:
Come the revolution I'd like to see the <edit> who dremt up this gizmo tied by his <edit> behind a pinz and dragged nekked through the streets so's we can empty our bins over him. :dance:
Boggert:
How does it record this info?
Disco Matt:
What difference does it make that the companies are German-owned? Only on planet Daily Wail... :lol:
Seriously, these things are RFID tags. They're not transmitting back to some shadowy HQ that you had a takeaway curry, all they do is record how often the bin is being emptied (the bin lorry will have a reader on it to record this). I don' t agree with them, but I'm not a huge fan of hysterical newspapers either...
I firmly believe that the whole system is skewed. See, recycling is a good earner for companies involved in it, so our waste is clearly worth something. In other words, the councils want to charge us to take away something that they can then sell on! Here in Powys we have kerbside recycling with as many bags as you want, and it works - people do recycle without any threats. If you make it that easy, people will do it.
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