By Bryan Pearson
If you’ve traveled the streets of London lately, there is a chance that a trash bin tried to pick up your smartphone.
I mean that in the abstract sense. A company called Renew recently programmed “smart” trash bins to record the unique addresses of smartphones carried by pedestrians. No one was notified, and there was no way for people to know that their personal data was being collected. But in one day, a small number of those bins collected data....