The Intercept has a recent article: Local Governments Increasingly Poking Through Your Garbage:
Civil libertarians are worried about an increasingly common form of domestic surveillance that...has to do with looking through your garbage... [G]arbage trucks now have the ability to record the contents of your trash cans on video to inspect each object. The ACLU says, "While encouraging residents to recycle is commendable, any program involving the government's systematic monitoring of citizens crosses a line. The contents of your trash can be surprisingly revealing." [emphasis mine] In some cities, trash cans are monitored with RFID devices to determine who is actually putting their recycling bin out on the curb. Prizes are given, or fines can be levied if a threshold limiting recyclable content in trash is exceeded, although none have been issued yet. "It's very crazy. Also not entirely surprising given the prevalence of surveillance technologies. Nothing is safe, not even our trash."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 30 2015, @09:57PM
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(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Tork on Thursday July 30 2015, @10:03PM
Good luck!
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 30 2015, @10:17PM
Don't need luck. I already won.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday July 30 2015, @11:30PM
Whatever you say, man. ;)
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