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I don't live in Hertfordshire, but if I did, I would now stop using these recycling facilities and start dumping my rubbish elsewhere. I hope lots of people in Herts now start doing this.
This is just another example of the curtain-twitching mentality that now pervades the whole country. Spy cameras are now the universal solution, to such an extent that they are now the solution when there isn't even a problem - as in this case. The way we are going there's going to be a spy camera on every lamp-post, in every policeman's helmet and in every room of every public building in Britain. I don't know what we can do about this. The whole issue is verging on maddness.
This does seem like an obsessive case of monitoring where none is required. On the "secure internet connection" what they mean is a VPN (virtual private network). Such systems are good enough for most purposes, but anything which passes through the internet is not secure in any strong sense of the word. A determined individual or organisation with good mathematical training and enough time and equipment can always decode the relatively weak forms of internet encryption which are currently widely used.
I think it's no exaggeration to say that within another decade or two we're facing the end of notions of privacy as we know them now. Within 20 years I think most people will be online and traceable most of the time - no matter what they're doing - and if they're outside of their own homes be within view of multiple cameras networked to centralised servers. The cost of camera technology has fallen significantly over the last decade, and looks likely to fall further still. When combined with pervasive wireless networks this means that it really will be both possible and economically viable to put a camera in every lamp post.
Watching me having a dump. Nice!
How soon before the footage is streamed on the web where leagues of unseen greens can 'shop' the waste site users for haphazardly putting garden rubbish into the 'general' waste bins.
How soon before someone will actually be watching you have a dump - via a spy camera? That's the way we're going.
Taking this logical conclusion, how far away can we be from the government 'encouraging' the use of camera systems within homes?
Taking this to its logical conclusion, how far away can we be from the government 'encouraging' the use of camera systems within homes?
Sorry about the double post. Wild speculation? I am honestly not so sure any more. Within the 'if you are not doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about' regime literally anything is possible.
Perhaps that will prove to be the ultimate control phrase muttered by the Big Brother complex.
@wtwu
If you live in Bucks, I am afraid that it *IS* necessary for the Council to know who is using their Household Waste disposal facilities. See this ref:
http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/bcc/content/index.jsp?contentid=-901165852
and in particular, this link from that page:
http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/waste_strategy/wastepermit/Waste_Leaflet.pdf
You will see that Bucks residents are limited in the amount of stuff they can get rid of in this way. If they are not going in their private car, but in a commercial vehicle of some sort, then they must get a PERMIT beforehand. Perhaps I can understand that, as part of ensuring that the facility is not abused by commercial operators.
BUT YOU MUST ALSO HAVE A PERMIT IF YOU WALK TO THE SITE with your rubbish. That makes me think (I haven't been to a waste site yet to check) that all arriving vehicles are ANPRed, with the details stored against household records (for an eternity?)
Big Brother is here big time if they are applying technology like this to topics such as this!
@ Bucks Resident - it is no good showing your permit to a CCTV camera, there has to be a human supervisor at a recycling site, for safety reasons at least.
Whether Local Councils have direct access to the DVLA and Police National Computer via ANPR, or whether they just pass on your car license plate to the Police to check, it is still snooping, with no guarantee that the requests refer to genuine "incidents".
Hounslow Council, and others, demand that you bring along your Council Tax form etc. to prove that you are resident of the Borough in order to use their recycling centres.
http://www.hounslow.gov.uk/index/environment_and_planning/recycling/space_waye.htm