trevHCS:
Just make sure you don’t ever work agency then as every place to get sent will be given a copy of your licence (both sides) and god knows how they store them. Probably stuffed in a filing cabinet just like your employer that everyone in the office has access to. We know how it should be done…but that’s a big difference to reality in many cases.
If you don’t want to do this fair enough, but I think I’d trust big companies to store data securely vs little companies as the former have entire compliance depts and come under a lot of scrutiny. Each to their own.
What signatures have to do with anything I have no idea at all.
Really, Optus a telco here in australia got hacked and lost over 10 million customers data … large companies easier to hack.
And to rub salt in the wound, they went offline for nearly 20 hours yesterday. Does this sort of crap happen over there? Or are we still a backwater with technology? Or as Arfur would have said Technockolology.
A first world problem, Peter. I’m sure you can remember the days when communication was finding a working public, phone in the next town, preferably with room to park a truck within walking distance.
ezydriver:
. Please use the facial recognition machine located at…
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I don’t follow your objection to this?
It will result in your employer knowing when you arrived and left work. It will eliminate a friendly colleague clocking you in when you’re running late.
Other than the breakdown in trust that the employer just trusts you to work your contracted hours or the hours you say you’ve done, which I accept, what is the problem with the facial recognition part?
The Silverstone story has nothing to do with the workplace example.
The facial recognition clock-machine at this particular warehouse does not exist in isolation. It’s yet another artifact on the long march to total surveillance. Thirty five years ago it was speed cameras popping up along the Aston Expressway, today it’s companies scanning individual’s biometric information for something as innocuous as clocking in and out of work. What will it be tomorrow? Smart CBDCs that won’t allow you to buy a pizza if your smart toilet thinks you’ve got diabetes from your stool sample? Or perhaps smart CBDCs that have an expiry date, forcing you to spend, and never save, effectively turning us all into obligatory consumers? I’m trying to be a good driver and look at the road a mile ahead.
What I’m trying to say is that by using the facial recognition machine you’re saying it’s ok for more surveillence. The act of using it en masse normalises the technology. But it’s not normal to use a piece of equipment used primarily in high security institutions for use in a warehouse that distributes cheap food to bingo halls and cinema cafes. Don’t you feel society and workplaces resemble something akin to open prisons? Doesn’t that bother you at all? The Silverstone story has everything to do with the workplace example. It’s in the same spirit of the complaint I have. It goes hand in hand.
I’ve never understood how such an overwhelmingly large class of people who have ridiculous amounts of power never use it. It’s easier to live in ignorance, fear (of losing a job etc), and convenience, isn’t it?
…It would kinda make sense if you had a licence on you that matched the digicard ID on the dashboard, assuming you’re driving one of the more modern tractor units…
Are we not supposed to be carrying a Licence, Digicard, and Blue card all at the same time these days, be we full time, part time, or agency?
Wot about Contractors though?
Perhaps the time is long-overdue that “Contractors” were subject to the same security checks as the rest of us, before they casually pick up their trailer, and then park outside in the service area road for 4 hours solid, without even being challenged by the firm…
A collection we used to do tried demanding to see our driving licence cards before loading, told them no chance, some drivers obliged but others said no, we were turned away with no load, my employer & DHL had to come to an agreement to accept company ID, our union backed us on it.
WhiteTruckMan:
Has anyone renewed their license recently? you should read the letter that comes with it, saying what you should not do with your licence.
Well what does it say? For those of us that don’t have to renew yet!!!
Update: It’s been a couple of weeks now, not been pulled into the office, nothing has been said to me, and the best bit of all… I’ve been nowhere near an Amazon site
WhiteTruckMan:
Has anyone renewed their license recently? you should read the letter that comes with it, saying what you should not do with your licence.
Well what does it say? For those of us that don’t have to renew yet!!!
This passed me by, but just noticed it so dug out the letter I got with my new licence. Among the list of does and don’t it specifically says :
“Protect yourself against identity theft - keep your driving licence safe and secure at all times. Similar to a credit card, your driving license should not be shared, copied or photographed”
And that’s officially from the DVLA.
Mind you, this is the same organisation that will happily sell your info to any dodgy car park owner.
I’ve just been asked for ID at the Amazon site the haulage partner I work for is based out of. I wouldn’t mind but I’ve been in and out of here thousands of times in the last year. Anyway won’t bother me after next week as I handed my notice in. I’m fed up of working for absolute peanuts and managed to get a better job.
ezydriver:
Update: It’s been a couple of weeks now, not been pulled into the office, nothing has been said to me, and the best bit of all… I’ve been nowhere near an Amazon site
