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Would you wear a body cam at work?

If body cams get cheaper and cheaper, companies might start asking more people to wear them while working.

E.g.: coloradosun.com/…/youth-corrections-audio-surveil…

I could see this for doctors, at restaurants, stores,, etc… eventually.

Are you ready to wear one?

EDIT TO ADD: A few people said this wouldn’t ever make sense for doctors (privacy laws) or for fixed locations (stores). I should have thought of that.

But what about Uber / bus drivers, or repair people who go into homes? I can imagine a large corporation thinking a cam is a good idea, for their own CYA (not for the customers’ or the employees’).

Also I don’t like this idea either, to be clear. I was mostly playing devil’s advocate here to see what you all think. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Pretty much what I expected, tbh

wildbus8979 ,

I would absolutely, categorically, stop doing business wherever I see employees wearing bodycams.

richieadler ,

Hell no. That would turn anything other than unflinching obsequiousness towards obnoxious clients and potential fraudsters into a firing offense. Specially in the already dystopian US job market.

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.

HobbitFoot ,

There are things that I do where a body cam would be useful, but I wouldn’t wear it for office work.

henfredemars ,

That depends… who controls the footage?

If it’s my employer, absolutely not unless the job is high liability already because then it becomes a liability for me when somebody else controls my data.

If it’s just for me, sure I would wear it if it’s not too much trouble and I have concerns.

brokenlcd ,

are you ready to wear one?

I’m ready to make an elton john style jacket full of infrared leds

neidu2 , (edited )

What’s stopping you? You do you.

c0smokram3r ,
@c0smokram3r@midwest.social avatar

I fucking love this idea!!!

andrewta ,

Certain jobs I would. fire, police

Most jobs I would not

perishthethought OP ,

Sure. But where to draw that line? I can imagine companies will want them for liability reasons.

andrewta ,

The line I draw currently is this. Jobs that we currently look at and say those persons should have body cams. Police fire rescue.

I’d also add landlords and their staff/assistants should have them. Other than that . No I wouldn’t wear them.

Little_mouse ,

I imagine if my occupation includes carrying a gun, interacting with citizens, and a historically high rate of extrajudicial deaths amongst people I am supposed to be protecting. A publicly accessible camera would be beneficial to easing the minds of those I interact with and providing evidence for any actual instances where I felt my life was threatened.

lolcatnip , (edited )

Draw the line at jobs where someone wields authority over the public, disputes can’t be easily resolved after the fact, and the person doing the job moves around too much for fixed cameras to be adequate. I can’t off the top of my head think of an example that isn’t in law enforcement.

If you take away the authority part, you could say that, for example, cleaning personnel should wear body cameras because it’s so easy for them to commit theft, but they’re already treated pretty poorly and I wouldn’t want them humiliated further.

anon6789 ,
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I heartily agree: they should be a tool to serve the public interest. That police can withhold that footage after an incident or have any justification having a camera off in public, I find it reprehensible.

Using it on private citizens feels more like having a cheap overseer…just a tool to punish.

grue ,

I don’t give a shit what companies want; the only employees that can be legitimately forced to wear such things are those who have obligations to the public.

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