Amazon Told Drivers Not to Worry About In-Van Surveillance Cameras. Now Footage Is Leaking Online::undefined

  • twelve@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    The problem is not the camera, the problem is that amazon is not doing much to preserve the privacy if its employees from these leaks

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      1 year ago

      And we know that how?

      Amazon is a very very large company, completely sealing up something like that would be next to impossible.

      Note this doesn’t meant they shouldn’t try, only that I personally recognize the scope of the issue at hand.

      Hopefully they find the source of these leaks soon though and patch up their privacy better for the drivers sake, but it’s very likely it’s just another Amazon worker leaking these.

      • MyFairJulia@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I don’t think that a driver facing camera increases the safety of package delivery whatsoever. All it can detect is whether a delivery person is driving, perhaps how they are driving and that’s it.

        A delivery person can exit the car, take a package of (potential) value out and do whatever. You can still be caught taking the package away from the customer if you do not take it to the customers door first and then not announce yourself. Or make a photo to “confirm” that the package made it to the door.

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          1 year ago

          Well agree to disagree then, you’re under the clock it’s pretty normal to be monitored for a variety of reasons.

          Hate me if you want, and I agree with the issue with the leaks themselves, but being watched at work isn’t some dystopian nightmare.

          • MyFairJulia@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            It doesn’t feel dystopian because it’s basically normalized as your comment shows. Being watched at work permanently through camera supervision specifically. Being watched at work on occasion or your work being checked is indeed normal.

            Ferris has told me via DM that the cameras do not film permanently but instead start recording footage when the car is jerking around because that could result in broken packages and Amazon is trying to cover their ass. However this system could be intentionally or unintentionally too sensitive.

      • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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        1 year ago

        We know that because we’re watching these videos online even though we don’t work for Amazon. The proof is in the pudding.