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> There is no expectation of privacy of your face when engaging in any kind of commercial transaction. I expect to be informed that recording will be occuring
by hughesjj 3y ago
> There is no expectation of privacy of your face when engaging in any kind of commercial transaction.
I expect to be informed that recording will be occuring given I live in a two party consent state.
There is an expectation of privacy in certain circumstances, ex law office, Drs office, and the break room (given discussing working conditions in a break room is a protected activity where recording is disallowed)
Every customer support hotline I've ever dialed prefaces the message with 'this conversation may be recorded'. Most ATMs have a video surveillance tag somewhere nearby.
Regardless, if Amazon bought commercial products with recording devices and installed them in the break room, that's ultimately Amazon's responsibility. Perhaps it was an honest mistake, but IMHO Amazon has failed to Earn Trust and Disagree and Commit to following the law when it comes to labor regulations
- gruez 3y ago>I expect to be informed that recording will be occuring given I live in a two party consent state. The concept of "two party consent" only applies to conversations. They don't apply to video recordings.
- crazygringo 3y agoIn case it wasn't clear, I'm talking about taking basic video/still security footage while paying for something. There's no such thing as two-party consent for that. That has nothing to do with audio recording, which seems to be what you're talking about. I'm not talking about audio, nor is the original article in question, nor the coffee machine in question.
- hughesjj 3y agoI don't think the media of recording matters so much as that there exists a recording. I agree that in other contexts this might be less troublesome, but Amazon has a history of retaliation against labor organization, and it's quite possible (I'm by no means saying certain or even probable) that this is another instance of such.
- jstarfish 3y agoIt does matter. Video must respect reasonable degree of privacy. So no bathrooms or bedrooms. Anywhere else, fair game.
- hughesjj 3y agoWell, save for the break room if you're an employer. Any form of surveillance of a break room by the employer opens you up to litigation afaik. If not legally, at least ethically.
- hiatus 3y ago> I expect to be informed that recording will be occuring given I live in a two party consent state. As far as I am aware, two-party consent is specifically for audio recordings, not recordings without an audio component.