A more perfect analogy would be the truck driver handing the other guy the balaclava and watching him put it on in front of him and then take it off again before he left. Not really much more private.
this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2023
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Now I'm curious if this would actually be a viable business model, if it'd have any legal or practical issues, and if anyone already does it. Like, there exist companies that collect trash already, clearly that part is already viable, so if information could be collected and sold to advertisers for even a little more than the cost to collect that information, then it would be extra profit for the trash company as long as it didn't negatively impact their core business of trash collection. Could be even more insidious and hard to opt out of than actually having someone look through one's individual trash too, for example, if one could, say, sort out the cans from the trash for recycling purposes, one might also try to have a machine look for brand logos on those cans, and store information about which route a given load came from, potentially giving information about what kinds of beverages people in a given neighborhood are more or less likely to buy.
Those were my thoughts when I saw Gates bought waste managment stocks and saw the video of AI successfully sorting the items for recycling.
Dunno about selling ads, but rooting through people's garbage is a massively important part of archaeology/anthropology!
It's also an important part of preparing for a hack, the discoveries in the garbage are used for social engineering, which is used for hacking. See the movie Sneakers for a great example.
They should pay us to take away our garbage.
For real, so many free calories to harvest.
Found the raccoon
Shitx they're going to serve me "green" ads because I don't produce any garbage.
I would not be surprised if someday we'll get our trash checked by government.
Lol wut. That's the old way to do it. See COINTELPRO and the Congressional Church Committee
Fuck me, you're right.... what comes next?
SIGINT
Does this imply that our personal data is garbage 🤔
Well, with how candidly we often throw it around, we certainly do treat it like garbage!
"One man's trash is another man's treasure" seem to apply in such case.