Privacy No More!
You may think this is crazy, but the Green Police (use to be known as the Gestapo)are coming to a town near you! I am serious! Many think the following ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVhT7P0lDfI put out by Audi during the 2010 Superbowl is funny and cannot happen here in the United States-think again; it is happening now! Seriously, your garbage and recyclables are being monitored (in some cities in the USA) via RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) either put on your garbage containers/recycling bins or on your garbage bags. Plus, there are people who are called “Green Police” or the “Eco Police” that can then give you a fine of $25-$100 for not recycling or not recycling correctly. In other countries in Europe you can go to court if you do not recycle correctly or not enough-these RFID can even weigh how much garbage is being picked up at each address and then it is used to see if each address is doing enough to recycle.
I know as well as the next person that we need to recycle, but come on! This is ridiculous! Not including the fact that it is an invasion of privacy! You have people in these different cities and countries hiring somebody to snoop through your garbage/recyclables and plus they can see what you eat, how much you eat, where you eat, bills you may have paid, newspapers/magazines you read, what alcohol you drink, what prescriptions you take, if you drink soda/pop, kool-aid, water (bottled),what kind of junk food you eat, what kind of nose blowers you use, what kind of feminine products are used in the home-excuse me, whose business is it to be snooping through your garbage/recyclables? How is the information gathered from the bins or bags going to be used? Will you be referred to a doctor because you eat too much salt or drink too much soda/pop? Will you be arrested for reading the “wrong” newspaper? Will you be arrested for drinking “too much” alcohol? Will you be arrested for taking “too much” pain medication? Are companies going to use this information to help target communities for the advertising of their products? Well? Cities could really make a lot of money selling the information off those RFID chips and what the Green Police/Eco Police find out when they are snooping through your garbage/recyclables-we all know many cities in the USA are hurting for money!
Seriously, this is scary and makes me feel mighty uncomfortable-I like my privacy. Not because I am doing anything wrong, it is because I have the God given right to privacy! How would you feel about a “smart toilet”? Not kidding. This “smart toilet” when “you sit down the seat sends a mild electric charge through your bottom that calculates your body/fat ratio and then transmits the information to your doctors.” (http://catholicexchange.com/2010/08/28/133765). In England, there is an advanced model of the modern ceramic toilet call the VIP (Versatile Interactive Pan)-“that examines your urine and stools for medical problems and dietary content; if you are not getting enough roughage, it automatically sends a signal to the nearest supermarket requesting a delivery of beans. All you have to do is sit there as your VIP toilet orders a la carte and prescribes your medication.” (http://catholicexchange.com). So it is not just your garbage/recyclables that will be telling on you, now it can be your toilet too!
Instead of spying on people, which is really what the RFID was originally designed to do, why aren’t there some kind of incentives for recycling? Like the $.05 or $.10 return on bottles and cans-great way to help raise money for the boy or girl scouts, schools, the homeless, and recycle. How about plastic bag returns in more businesses and with each return of plastic bags receive a free re-usable bag-make sure there is a standard amount that must be returned to receive a free re-usable bag. Plastic bags can be reused if needed as garbage bags. How about for plastic containers you also have a $.05 or $.10 return for each one. Car parts can be recycled which is done everyday in junk yards or by many entrepreneurs who sell all kinds of car parts on the internet and by newspaper. Encourage community composting by having free drop off of leaves, limbs, grass clippings, egg shells, coffee grounds, veggie waste and more-which is done in many communities, but more are charging to take these things now. If done in this way, more people would respond more positively; when you shove it down their throat, it is only human to react by telling the people that enforce to “stick it”.
So it is time to wake up America! The “Green Police” or the “Eco Police’” (with their RFID) are coming to your town and you need to ask yourself if you are ready to give up your God given right to privacy!
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I always try to dispose of my garbage responsibly however it is often depressing whenever I check out what the rest of the world is doing to the wonderful planet!
Countries like India and China are the worse offenders and nobody seems to get that! I try to be responsible also when disposing of waste-I have a compost pile, I sort my plastics and aluminum and I reuse grocery bags and resuse my freezer and storage bags. I also try to use reusable bags as much as possible when shopping…it does help. But some people in this world think there has to be an agency created (plus monitor your garbage can) to snoop through your garbage to make sure you are doing your “part”-that to me is going wayyyy to far!