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Re:Garbage collection via pneumatic tubes by klyrs on Friday October 02, 2020 @11:56AM (#24663915)
In many places, your garbage becomes "public" the moment you relinquish custody of it. These tubes will be metered, and the mechanism to do that will enable the police to grab your canisters as they arrive at network hubs.
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Re:Garbage collection via pneumatic tubes by tonyedgecombe on Saturday October 03, 2020 @05:03AM (#24670659)
Only after Samsung has scanned it to decide what advertising to pump into your smart TV.
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Re:Garbage collection via pneumatic tubes by TeMPOraL on Saturday October 03, 2020 @05:42AM (#24670843)
You jest, but I fear we're not far from chemical analyzers being put into the sewage system, so that advertisers can detect a sudden appearance of e.g. pregnancy hormones in someone's toilet output, and helpfully spam them with baby stuff ads.

I remember reading about work to build something like that in public toilets to detect potential infections spreading around a city, but I'll be voting against such projects up and until the adtech industry is burned down to the ground.

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