{"id":1059,"date":"2005-02-17T07:38:32","date_gmt":"2005-02-17T07:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2005-02-17T07:38:32","modified_gmt":"2005-02-17T07:38:32","slug":"garbage_survell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1059","title":{"rendered":"Garbage Survellience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/online\/story\/0,3605,1410921,00.html\">Hugh Muir<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Though he foresaw many ways in which Big Brother might watch us, even George Orwell never imagined that the authorities would keep a keen eye on<br \/>\nyour bin.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of Croydon, south London, have been told that the microchips<br \/>\nbeing inserted into their new wheely bins may well be adapted so that the<br \/>\ncouncil can judge whether they are producing too much rubbish.<\/p>\n<p>If the technology suggests that they are, errant residents may be visited<br \/>\nby officials bearing advice on how they might &#8220;manage their rubbish more<br \/>\neffectively&#8221;.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>   I wonder if Madison&#8217;s forthcoming trash bins include this &#8220;feature&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugh Muir: Though he foresaw many ways in which Big Brother might watch us, even George Orwell never imagined that the authorities would keep a keen eye on your bin. Residents of Croydon, south London, have been told that the microchips being inserted into their new wheely bins may well be adapted so that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}