Privacy campaigners claim increasing numbers of councils are gearing up for "pay as you throw" rubbish charges by installing microchips in wheelie bins.
The Big Brother Watch group says its survey found 68 UK authorities with the technology at their disposal - up from 42 last year - with chips in 2.6m bins.
but it's OK because...
Councils say the chips simply identify to which house a bin belongs and may be used to offer incentives - not fines.
Nothing to see here, move along and we will only ever use these chips to make sure we've emptied your bin, well, right up to the point we start weighing it and charging you per kilo over your 100kg a year allowance (allowance reduced by 10% year on year to "encourage you to be efficient in your waste) all on top of your council tax, natch.
Oh and thanks for stumping up the cash in your council tax so we could buy the "007 Spybin" in the first place, suckers!
Anyway should you get one of these, here is some handy advice on what to do: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-blockkill-RFID-chips/ Or you could build a simple portable EMP device like these people: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/static/r/f/i/RFID-Zapper%28EN%29_77f3.html
We don't have to bend over and take it, we can fight back.
1 comment:
No need to worry, do you remember the case of Donna Chalice in 2006? The council has to prove who put the offending items into the wheelie bin. I know of one grand-mother who will pick up her dog's pooh and put it into the nearest wheelie bin on her return from the paper shop.
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