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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: 2, Flamebait) by That_Dude on Thursday July 30 2015, @10:26PM
I am proposing a national holiday week where guys dress up in women's clothing and go out and search through some random rubbish bin while wearing Hoover banners. The name Hoover must be the largest font, while other similar entities can be displayed using a smaller font. If just one person does it, they might think he's some kind of nut and lock him up in the back wards of some asylum. There have to be enough people doing this to outnumber hospital beds and jail cells - we're safer if they can't lock us all up. I suggest that we don't leave a mess behind when we're done. At the worst, encrypting your garbage will become a crime.