[mingus88]

Counterpoint: everyone needs to own their own video streams

I hate it, but you are being recorded everywhere you go. Your plates and your face get scanned every single day, all day long. This is normalized. Privacy is dead.

You will never get access to any of that data when you need it. It is not there to help you. You need to keep your own evidence of the world around you; you never know when you will need it.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

I just assume that I’m on video, at any given time.

Not condoning it; just accepting reality.

> It is not there to help you

It’s like those “This call may be monitored for 'quality' purposes.” service calls.

You can bet, that if the recording helps the company, they’ll have it, but if it helps you, well, they didn’t record that call.

[throwaway173738]

The best part of those messages is that they give you tacit permission to record the call on your phone.

[redwall_hp]

They're used heavily for the companies to harass and dehumanize the workers, too.

"You didn't try hard enough to sell the customer something else when they called with a major problem."

"How dare you deviate from the script and talk to the caller."

"Why did this take ten minutes? Get those call times down."

[dwedge]

Gdpr helps with this. I've made a SAR in the past for a recording. It's up to them to decide if the penalty of me having it is worse than the risk of getting caught illegally deleting it after

[assimpleaspossi]

What happens to everyone when the plates and faces are recorded or scanned? Who is looking at those every day?

[mingus88]

Nobody looks at them. It’s 2026.

In the U.S., municipal vehicles have ALPR scanners on them. They go into a database

Cop cars will ping if a flagged plate is seen (even if the front and back plates don’t match) and the officer will pull you over. Literally happens every day.