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Automated Garbage Monitoring

posted by takyon on Thursday July 30 2015, @08:10PM   
from the trashy-surveillance-tactics dept.

patella.whack writes:

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."

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Original Submission

• Burn your garbage like the good old days Burn your garbage like the good old days (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2015, @05:50AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2015, @05:50AM (#216177)

  Get a wood stove and burn your garbage. Or use a large metal can (with no lid) with holes near the bottom. Environment loses, but you will retain some of your freedom.

  Also, things that rot must be kept in the freezer until the time comes to dispose of them, far away from your home, hopefully. An example is meat, which gets real bad when left out.

  And when you need to eat in large quantities (or having guests over), and therefore need to dispose of large amounts of garbage, divide the load among many days, also turn cartons inside out if possible. Let go of it slowly. Spray some of it with acid. Don't let the spies know that you are having guests, because then the police will send someone to search your house for fugitives (people they don't like). Because guests can be fugitives too, you know.

  I would't be surprised if a profile of everyone in the world who uses official garbage disposal has not been made already. If it isn't, then it will happen in the very near future, and driving your garbage to another place (or burning it) will be made illegal.

• Re:Burn your garbage like the good old days (Score: 1) by dboz87 on Friday July 31 2015, @06:05PM

  by dboz87 (1285) on Friday July 31 2015, @06:05PM (#216429)

  MichaelDavidCrawford, is that you?

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