{"id":549968,"date":"2006-08-28T12:32:41","date_gmt":"2006-08-28T12:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/549968-british-bins-are-bugged.html"},"modified":"2006-08-28T12:32:41","modified_gmt":"2006-08-28T12:32:41","slug":"british-bins-are-bugged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/549968-british-bins-are-bugged.html","title":{"rendered":"British bins are bugged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The little gizmos are scanned as a bin is emptied when the garbage truck comes around, enabling local authorities back at their offices to track the garbage habits of each household. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;A crucial element is the ability to identify specific bins and record when they are emptied,&quot; said a spokesman for Deister, a German company that is marketing the technology. &quot;That information can be applied in many different ways.&quot; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Local authorities in England using the devices, which can be found under a bin&#8217;s front lip, included Crewe, Nantwich, Peterborough, South Norfolk, Woking, and Devizes in Wiltshire. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><i>Sapa-AFP<\/i> <\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bugs are turning up in garbage bins in Britain, and they&#8217;re not the insect kind. Some 500,000 &#8220;wheelie bins&#8221; have been secretly fitted with tiny electronic devices, each with a unique serial number, the Mail on Sunday newspaper reported. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}