Why Uncle Len is Afraid of Rubbish Bins, and You Should Be Too! by Len the Ex-Wheelie Bin Wizard

Once upon a time, I was Len the Cleaner, someone who knows all there was to know about rubbish bins. Someone who people showed respect to, by directly spitting in my face, not ignoring me. I was important enough to be abused.

Then my luxurious position was replaced by Asians. After that I developed, not a racial hatred for Asians, because I love the entire human race, but a hatred of bins. Yes bins. I blamed innate plastic for my downfall, and people thought that I was insane. And, I was, or indeed, am. But, that does not mean that I am necessarily wrong, for even the mad can be right about some things.
Consider: https://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/councils-are-rolling-out-wheelie-bins-bugged-rfid-/3159192/, and say that I am crazy for my phobia about bins. The article says, in sparkling prose:

"YOUR rubbish could be spying on you. As well as guarding your grime it might be disclosing your dirty habits. Your wheelie could be revealing all. Residents in Sydney’s inner west were surprised this month when the local council began replacing municipal bins, many of which are in perfect working order.
They were even more surprised when it was revealed there was a hidden addition to their shiny new bin. And it was telling council about all their filthy habits.
Sydney’s Inner West council has begun rolling out 35,000 new wheelie bins. Just under the rim in the new bins, away from prying eyes, is a small circular device - a Radio Frequency Identification Device, or RFID, tag.
It’s part of the increasing march of the so-called ‘internet of things’ which sees everyday objects - from fridges to kettles collect data on how they are used. Connected fridges can tell when products are expiring, connected bins could tell when you haven’t done enough recycling.
Privacy expert David Vaile has told news.com.au the unwillingness of organisations to reveal exactly why they need all this extra information meant it was “quite reasonable for people to be concerned ... in the absence of transparency”.

There you have it. Spying devices in bins. What next? Would it be crazy to think that the CIA is bugging everything, even bugs? Oh, that is old news: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-23/nightskies-12-wikileaks-latest-leak-says-cia-bugging-factory-fresh-iphones-2008. I just threw my imaginary i-whatever under a passing truck.

The article goes on to detail some of the moral/political implications of the surveillance push:

"Writing for The Conversation in October, Associate Professor in Business Information Systems at the University of Sydney, Uri Gal, said the amount of data collected on individuals had serious implications for free will.
“Data surveillance has become increasingly invasive and its scope has broadened with the proliferation of the internet of things [that] expands surveillance to our homes, cars, and daily activities by harvesting data from smart and mobile devices.”
These “digital traces” were collected and sometimes sold or shared without the knowledge of the people whose data had been collected. This information could then be used to “nudge” people into certain behaviours - like recycling more.
“More of our behaviours will be evaluated and ‘corrected’. With this disciplinary drive becoming routine, there is a danger we will start to accept it as the norm, and pattern our own behaviour to comply with external expectations, to the detriment of our free will.”

Just imagine what the deep State is up to that we don’t know about!