[LINK] Surveillance in extremis

[Karl Auer]

On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 18:09 +0100, Reagan Blundell wrote:
> > The general experience from overseas is that solutions based on weight 
> > DON'T work.
> Best let the UK Local Government Association know - seems they have 
> plans to RFID enable bins to enable them to track household rubbish 
> weight with a view to charging on it.

That's a bit sad - they really should already know. I guess they didn't
bother looking around at what other people had tried, then they would
have seen the total failure of weight-based systems in several other
European countries. But that's the British for you - they are renowned
for not learning from history :-)

Regards, K.

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