[LINK] Surveillance in extremis

[Geoff Ramadan]

Jan

I am curious to know if you or anyone else would have the same concerns if they 
had stuck a simple "barcode" on the bin with a unique number?

Regards

Geoffrey Ramadan, B.E.(Elec)
Chairman, Automatic Data Capture Australia (www.adca.com.au)
and
Managing Director, Unique Micro Design (www.umd.com.au)


Jan Whitaker wrote:
> At 10:26 AM 28/08/2006, you wrote:
>> stick to the facts Ma'am...my source on the ground in Ryde has passed 
>> on a copy of the local paper
> 
> I hope you weren't suggesting that I was stating any facts or even 
> attempting to. I don't live in Ryde, or even NSW! :-)
> 
> BTW, these tags are being used in Ireland as well. One of our Aust. 
> Privacy Board members just sent a note that it is being called 'bin 
> brother' there
> 
>> Just saw a paper here in Galway reporting that 500,000 Irish rubbish 
>> bins (wheely bins) have been implanted with sensor chips from a German 
>> company, with no discussion by most councils which went along with it. 
>> Why? For efficiency, to reduce neighbour disputes, and potentially to 
>> monitor how much recycling you are doing. Privacy advocates noted 
>> potential to hack into the related remote database and track who is 
>> home by changes in rubbish volume etc. Being called "Bin Brother".
> 
> so I'm not alone in my concern.
> 
> Jan
> 
> 
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