TapBugs in the Wheely Bins

As Bruce Schneier said, you couldn’t make this one up.

Apparently some councils are bugging people’s wheely bins (actually ID’ing them with an RFID tag) to monitor quantities of non-recycled waste per household. This is sponsored by two German companies who want to know the gross statistics but the incentive for the council is that they can use the database to identify profligate households and impose sanctions.

The areas targeted so far are Crewe, Nantwich, Peterborough, South Norfolk, Woking, and Devizes. If I discover it in Bristol, don’t be surprised to see me out at the dead of night destroying the chips, if I can find them, or juggling the bins if I can’t. The implications for privacy are uncountable.

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