[LINK] Surveillance in extremis

[Kim Holburn]

I expect this is RFID?

Some councils already have bar codes that can be read by the bin  
truck, so I can't see this is a lot different.  Someone I know gets  
their bin stolen regularly, this might help.

Once we have RFID tags in grocery packaging, the council bin truck  
can alert us by email that we need more weetbix or whatever ;-)

On 2006 Aug 21, at 9:52 AM, Howard Lowndes wrote:

> http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200608/s1719462.htm
>
> Council under fire over 'bin-bugging'
>
> New South Wales Deputy Premier John Watkins is demanding Ryde  
> Council in Sydney's north-west come clean about monitoring devices  
> that have been placed in thousands of residents' bins.
>
> Mr Watkins, also the Member for Ryde, says Council has placed  
> tracking devices in up to 90,000 bins to monitor the level of waste  
> coming from each household.
>
> He says the Council has failed to consult ratepayers about the  
> installation of microchips in garbage bins and that residents need  
> to know what is behind the 'bin-bugging'.
>
> "Will it result in higher rates or increased charges for heavier  
> bin loads?" he said.
>
> "Residents really deserve to know the answer before the  
> surveillance starts, not after.
>
> "Residents at the end of the day are paying for this covert caper -  
> they've got a right to know what's going on."
>
> He says ratepayers were not consulted about the 'bin-bugging'.
>
> "They've stuck tracking bugs on 90,000 garbage bins, including my  
> family's, without telling us anything about it and as a ratepayer  
> I'd like to know what they're up to," he said.
>
> "I'm getting calls from other ratepayers who are asking what's  
> happening with strange men late at night putting things on their  
> bins."

You gotta love that last line.

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