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30p87 ,

Imagine an 8 hour livestream of someone banging their head on the keyboard until the code magically fixes itself. Very fun.

perishthethought OP ,

Same here. But imagine if you were living in The Fifth Element world of mega-corps. They tell you to wear a camera so they can tell when you’re not working…

There’s monitoring software like that already.

wildbus8979 ,

You want this for DOCTORS? You want your private health information record like this? Are you freaking nuts?

communism ,
@communism@lemmy.ml avatar

It’d be on record by the same organisation that has access to your medical records anyway. Doctors are frequently known for abuse of power over disabled patients, trans patients, racialised patients, etc, so it makes it easier to take action against negligent/abusive doctors.

wildbus8979 ,

My doctor writes shit on papaerz in a filing cabinet. That’s a whole lot better than digitally where it can easily be mass exfiltrated.

perishthethought OP ,

No, I don’t. I’m putting on my tin foil hat here and trying to guess what the future might hold.

SuiXi3D ,
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Absolutely. No better way to prove that you’ve been mistreated by customers or coworkers.

perishthethought OP ,

Oh, yes if you keep control over the video. Don’t trust your employer to use it for benefit though.

then_three_more ,

A few of the supermarkets in my country have this as an option for staff. Since the pandemic there’s been an alarming rise in public attacking shop staff.

Dark_Arc ,
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That’s absolutely wild.

perishthethought OP ,

This. Yes. I would just find a new job, but what if all employers in an industry require body cams?

Mrs_deWinter ,

Why doctors? Filming patients would be a nightmare in terms of privacy and data policy.

In my line of work (psychotherapy) it would be equally impossible. People are having a hard enough time as it is opening up to medical professionals, I don’t think that the additional barrier of being actively filmed would help anyone.

perishthethought OP ,

Check out the linked article. I agree with you but that agency is only adding cameras for the agency’s benefit, not the worker’s.

juliebean ,

body cams only make any sense when you’re not in a fixed location and already always on camera, or when there’s commonly abuses of power off camera. both are true of cops. neither are true of the cashiers at Hot Topic or whatever.

perishthethought OP ,

True. Today. But should have said I’m imagining a black Mirror future where things are so bad and the tech so cheap, that corps decide they want all employees to wear one, for their use.

In the linked article, public health workers are going to wear a cam so the govt can tell when they break rules, out in the field. I could see that kind of thinking expanded to other fields over time, no?

It occurs to me now that the cashier at hot topic is already being recorded. So good point.

rand_alpha19 ,

If I got paid double to wear one, sure. Other than that, no.

communism ,
@communism@lemmy.ml avatar

In the jobs I work at, no, I wouldn’t. Body cams would only be used to snitch on people. It makes sense for surveillance to be used over people in positions of power like cops, doctors, prison guards, etc, who are known for abusing their power. Not against ordinary people or members of the public though. If retail workers wear bodycams, it’s to snitch on shoplifters. If teachers wear bodycams it’d compromise kids who approach them to tell them something in confidence. Etc.

shinigamiookamiryuu ,

I literally work for what amounts to a media business, giving me a body cam would be like giving ice to an eskimo.

cm0002 ,

Body cams can already be had for cheap Electronics wise, they’re not complicated or special. Yet, they’re still not in widespread use beyond police.

The reason police body cams are pricey is because 1) “military/police grade” rip-off premium pricing and 2) The housing has to be designed to be waterproof, shockproof, dust proof etc because of what they do on a day to day.

A retail worker is not going to need this level of “proofing” because they’re not running through an alley or something in their day to day

Death_Equity ,

Absolutely not. You can justify it with whatever reasoning you want, but it would be used against employees far more than it helps employees.

earlgrey0 ,

Preach. It wasn’t body cams but our company gave us all mandatory phones with custom location tracking software on them. It was done as part of their pandemic response. The phones were supposedly only tracking your location within a mile of the site and were only used for enforcing social distancing and infection tracking. Well when the return to office mandates came around, upper management was suddenly too informed about how much time we spent onsite. They swore up and down it wasn’t the phones and went to pretty absurd lengths to find some other metric to prove it.

Death_Equity ,

If I had to deal with that, the phone would be in a faraday box with a router that connected to a VPN that cycled servers every 24hrs.

Every day they would think I was in a different country.

earlgrey0 ,

There’s a reason why they’re my former employer. Upper management was discussing replacing our badges with the phone. We needed the phones to get into the building because that was where the covid protocol pass was kept and security checked. It was impressive how quickly they took advantage of the pandemic to make creepy breeches in privacy.

Melatonin ,

I might be wearing my own small, undetectable body cam, to protect myself against workplace harassment, racism, and unfair labor practices.

I’m a walking, talking landmine for those bastards. /S

mayo_cider ,
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I refuse to use camera in meetings

Barx ,

The company you work for is not your friend. If it is their body can they will use it to their benefit. Any benefit you receive will be incidental or simply part if their propaganda to get you to wear it for them.

It will be used, primarily, to surveil employees. They will track your habits and ensure you are aware that every single thing you do for your shift is something your boss or their boss or their boss can come back to you with and reprimand you for. They will try to set performance targets that can be compared to your videos so they can tell you what an algorithm or a petty middle manager says you are doing wrong. Too much time helping a customer. You’re not folding clothes fast enough. Walk faster. No sitting. They will set keywords. Union. Break. Curse words. Your bosses’ names. They might not even review these things. The intimidation is enough. Maybe you’ll get new policies. See that black guy? Follow him. Get video. The algorithm said to do it so it can’t be racist. We’ll pass it along to the cops.

Companies wouldn’t pay for it if they didn’t see a business angle and the obvious ones are control over employees and being able to use more video for “liability” defense.

aviation_hydrated ,

Suggestions to buy bodycams that aren’t WiFi/Bluetooth?

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