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by oli_b 2093 days ago
Maybe this is more revealing of how my mind works than an actual flaw, but this seems like it would be great for getting rid of evidence.
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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.
Only after Samsung has scanned it to decide what advertising to pump into your smart TV.
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.

These (probably) have cameras on them - https://centers.ibs.re.kr/html/living_en/housing/trash-avc.h...

Rubbish surveillance is a thing. Some tip trucks have internal cameras.

Remove the toilet bowl and put it down there?

I dunno, on the flip side it could be a good way to collect evidence if the garbage coming out your tube could be tagged somehow
Every large project needs people like you. Thanks for the laugh.