Just when you thought the ultimate threat to your privacy rights had been discovered -- the US governments PRISM program -- a new threat emerges fromtrash cans.
No, that's not a joke. At least not here in London, where hi-tech trash cans (known as "rubbish bins") display ads to pedestrians via LED screens. The bins use Wi-Fi connectivity to pull ads from the advertising agency's content management system. However, it's been discovered that the agency behind the trash cans, Renew, has also been using that Wi-Fi to grab MAC information from people's iPhones and other smart phones. As The Guardian reports:
The Renew ad
