Radio 4 news just said that the only LA to be using these bin chips is Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead – not surprisingly a Conservative-controlled authority. Either the BBC have it wrong or the Mail have conveniently chosen to leave it out of their piece.
“68 local authorities in Britain and Northern Ireland have installed microchips in the rubbish bins of at least 2.6 million households. ” – http://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk
Facebook may be evil, but that internet is dead handy.
Usual Daily Mail (and bizarrely also trade union) logic: electronic tracking devices being use therefore someone must be spying. Does this mean these devices have no social benefits, or is that just ignored because it spoils the story?
a chip cannot “go through” peoples rubbish. it can’t really do anything, i know it sounds vaguely sci-fi but its not a processor, and it doesn’t mean anyone is spying on you (or for that matter, cares). there is a chip in my cat, it hasn’t turned her into a piece of servailance equipment.
I suspect there’s more spying capability in your TV remote control than whatever’s attached to the bin (Most likely an RF-ID chip).
There’s a long line of evidence suggesting that the British press don’t “get” technology at all.
Exhibit A: A long list of epic failures on scientific and medical reporting.
The image of the journo as a pissed up old fart confounded by new technology is alive and well.
They’ve ditched the typewriters for Wikipedia, but still have an inbuilt distrust for anything vaguely difficult .
Radio 4 news just said that the only LA to be using these bin chips is Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead – not surprisingly a Conservative-controlled authority. Either the BBC have it wrong or the Mail have conveniently chosen to leave it out of their piece.
“68 local authorities in Britain and Northern Ireland have installed microchips in the rubbish bins of at least 2.6 million households. ” – http://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk
Facebook may be evil, but that internet is dead handy.
bigbrotherwatch is part of Tax Payer Alliance, the well known Daily Mail rentaquote machine.
Usual Daily Mail (and bizarrely also trade union) logic: electronic tracking devices being use therefore someone must be spying. Does this mean these devices have no social benefits, or is that just ignored because it spoils the story?
The bloke was on the radio this morning, his tin foil hat kept interfering with the microphone.
Both our dog and cat have microchips about their persons. Is this part of the Big Brother Conspiracy?
Terry Wogan fans have stopped tuning into Chris Evans…………REALLY you do surprise me.
I really wish the Mail would stop going on about the Ashcroft tax avoidance claims…
They won’t because someone might mention Rothermere, another Tory-backing, tax-dodging cunt.
Phil: “Usual Daily Mail (and bizarrely also trade union) logic: electronic tracking devices being use therefore someone must be spying.”
If even the Mail and the Unions agree, have you considered they might be right?
Going through other peoples rubbish is for disreputable types with an interfering mentality. Our government to a tee.
I liked Wogan, but I like Chris Evans too. I didn’t think I would, but I do.
a chip cannot “go through” peoples rubbish. it can’t really do anything, i know it sounds vaguely sci-fi but its not a processor, and it doesn’t mean anyone is spying on you (or for that matter, cares). there is a chip in my cat, it hasn’t turned her into a piece of servailance equipment.
Indeed without power a chip is merely an interesting formation of silicon and plastic.
I’d wager these are merely RFID tags so they can tell how often individual bins need to be emptied.
The chips are for no other reason than allowing the council to identify the individual bin.
The chips link a bin to an individual house. So that if they get stolen, or somebody is wrongly using someone elses bin, this can be indentified.
The councils basically have problems with bins being stolen, and households using more than one bin. As in, stealing other people’s.
The chips allow these bins to be found, and these people be identified, when it happens.
That really is it.
Chris James
Kingswood Borough Council (Bristol)
Big Brother Watch/Tax Payers Alliance are conservative party front groups.
Independent, but funded by tory HQ. I think Lord Ashcroft funds them both. As well as Ian Dale’s Blog, Guido Fawkes, and Conservativehome.com.
There basic role is to try and create public mistrust in:
1: Local councils
2: Public Spending
In order to make cuts to council budgets, and public spending more acceptable to the public when the conservative party possibly take power.
Tax Payers Alliance, in particular is just a front group, to create public mistrust in public spending.
In order to make cuts to spending, by the tories, more accepted by the electorate, when the tories try to do it.
I can’t see why the Mail should care even if the chip could tell what was going in people’s bins. Is there something they’re not telling us?
basically, the high(er) tech version of painting your house number onto the side of it.
“Spy Paint hidded on millions of bins”
(that would have worked so much better if I’d spelled it right..)
it’s fine, just reads like a sun headline now.
I suspect there’s more spying capability in your TV remote control than whatever’s attached to the bin (Most likely an RF-ID chip).
There’s a long line of evidence suggesting that the British press don’t “get” technology at all.
Exhibit A: A long list of epic failures on scientific and medical reporting.
The image of the journo as a pissed up old fart confounded by new technology is alive and well.
They’ve ditched the typewriters for Wikipedia, but still have an inbuilt distrust for anything vaguely difficult .