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English: "Bin Brother" chip

French translation: puce moucharde







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English term or phrase:"Bin Brother" chip
French translation:puce moucharde
Entered by:Euqinimod
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Environment & Ecology / Pun
English term or phrase: "Bin Brother" chip
This is from an article about the microchips which are placed in dustbins to record how much rubbish each household places in their bin. It is obviously a pun on "Big Brother" with the idea that we are under constant surveillance - even regarding what we put in our dustbin.
So does anyone have a suggestion as to what I might call these "spy chips" in French? Puces espionnes?
The whole sentence reads
"In Germany, where the "Bin Brother" chips are made, families pay 18p per kilo of rubbish that is not recycled".

TIA
Josephine79
France
puce moucharde
Explanation:
Un mouchard est un indic et en vieil argot La Moucharde désignait la police.
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Euqinimod
France
Note from asker to answerer
Funnily enough, this had also occurred to me - thinking of the "tacographe" HGV/PSV drivers call a "mouchard" and I also like the fact that "mouches" are not unrelated to "bugs" which is another way in which this article refers to the offending piece of electronics.
Thanks to all,
Jo
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3puce mouchardeEuqinimod
4 +1puces RFIDMichael H G
3 +1puces espionnes
FX Fraipont
3puce "bin brother"
Geneviève Granger


  

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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
"bin brother" chip puces espionnes

Explanation:
Les puces espionnes arrivent
par Paul de Brem
Appelé à remplacer le code-barres, le dispositif de reconnaissance électronique RFID n'est pas seulement capable d'identifier et de suivre à la trace un produit: il peut en faire autant avec le propriétaire de celui-ci. Un exploit technologique… dont certains dénoncent déjà le caractère liberticide...
http://www.lexpress.fr/info/economie/dossier/gemplus/dossier...

FX Fraipont
Belgium
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 41

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Daniel Marquis: C'est bien cela. Voir le site : http://www.jameh.org/news/3new2005/news259.htm
22 mins
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33 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
"bin brother" chip puces RFID

Explanation:
Dossier > Puce RFID : mythes et réalités du Big Brother miniaturiséPuce RFID : mythes et réalités du Big Brother miniaturisé : Les RFIDs peuvent-elles devenir un réseau de surveillance des citoyens ?
www.futura-sciences.com/.../d/puce-rfid-mythes-et-realites-... - 58k -
Dossier > Puce RFID : mythes et réalités du Big Brother miniaturiséPuce RFID : mythes et réalités du Big Brother miniaturisé : Les RFIDs peuvent-elles devenir un réseau de surveillance des citoyens ?
www.futura-sciences.com/.../d/puce-rfid-mythes-et-realites-... - 58k -




Michael H G
Mauritius
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Alain Berton
12 hrs
  -> Merci Alain
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
"bin brother" chip puce moucharde

Explanation:
Un mouchard est un indic et en vieil argot La Moucharde désignait la police.

Euqinimod
France
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 16
Note from asker to answerer
Funnily enough, this had also occurred to me - thinking of the "tacographe" HGV/PSV drivers call a "mouchard" and I also like the fact that "mouches" are not unrelated to "bugs" which is another way in which this article refers to the offending piece of electronics.
Thanks to all,
Jo

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Lauren UK: I quite like that - it is far more pejorative than 'puce espionne' so maybe grasps the word play slightly better.
3 mins
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agree hendiadys
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agree Fiona
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12 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
"bin brother" chip puce "bin brother"

Explanation:
Pourquoi ne pas laisser tout simplement tel quel ? Après tout, le roman de G. Orwell est suffisamment connu en France aussi. Et le jeu de mots peut être compris aussi par le français moyen au connaissances d'anglais rudimentaires (...pardon !).

Il faut vérifier aussi s'il s'agit d'une marque ou nom. S'il s'agit d'une marque, il ne faut traduire en aucun cas.

Geneviève Granger
Germany
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Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
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