Driver facing cameras

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ezydriver:

newmercman:
Like the tachograph and speed limiter, in cab cameras will soon be fitted by the manufacturers on the production line.

Do I like the idea? No not at all, but think about it, what do you have to worry about? In a modern lorry you can do everything but pick your nose from the steering wheel controls, with smart phones and their voice activated features you can even read/send text messages. It’s not illegal to have a swig of coffee as you drive, it’s not illegal to eat a sarnie, or pick your nose, so really there’s nothing to fear from having one. So there is no reason an in cab camera will see anything that could condemn you, unless you’re doing something you shouldn’t be doing.

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I can’t find a face palm gif large enough for this! How many times do the “if you’re doing nothing wrong you’ve got nothing to fear” brigade need their naivety highlighting?

There’s about 100 things I could pick from your post, and I shall pick one. Eating a sarnie whilst driving is not illegal, as you say, but can be classed as driving without due care and attention. Have you never seen the news articles of people being fined for taking a bite of an apple in stationary traffic? It doesn’t take a genius to understand how a driver caught on camera biting into his cheese and pickle bap could end up sacked by a manger who has it in for said driver. There is lots to fear, especially as such intimate surveillance becomes normalised this way. A critical mind would naturally ask: what next? And one answer could be that DVSA want access to all camera facing footage - a bit like the FORS tacho data scheme. Would you want that?

Indeed. Imagine how much everyone’s private car insurance premiums would go up, if they got hold of “shared” footage of drivers so much as yawning, picking their noses, eating a mars bar, or taking a swig of coke on this “hottest summer since '76” we seem to be having right now…

“Data Sharing Company Policy” is like some brudder coming around for your rubbish, and occasionally finding out something they shouldn’t about you from it. There’s no upside to the person the rubbish once belonged to, so I tip spent cat litter studded with turds all over my rubbish - to give any would-be data miners as much fun as possible trying to glean my personal info out of what they find in my dustbins! :laughing: :smiling_imp: :smiling_imp: :smiling_imp:

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Winseer:
, so I tip spent cat litter studded with turds all over my rubbish - to give any would-be data miners as much fun as possible trying to glean my personal info out of what they find in my dustbins! :laughing: :smiling_imp: :smiling_imp: :smiling_imp:

I now have a mental image of you doing just that whilst wearing an all in one paper suit- 'cos “they” harvest your DNA doncha know, a respirator picked up from the Army & Navy store topped off with a hat made from pure unobtanium- because “they” harvest your thoughts through Sky dishes you know whilst shaking your rubber gloved hand at the aircraft flying over you sewing their chemtrails willy nilly!

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the maoster:

Winseer:
, so I tip spent cat litter studded with turds all over my rubbish - to give any would-be data miners as much fun as possible trying to glean my personal info out of what they find in my dustbins! :laughing: :smiling_imp: :smiling_imp: :smiling_imp:

I now have a mental image of you doing just that whilst wearing an all in one paper suit- 'cos “they” harvest your DNA doncha know, a respirator picked up from the Army & Navy store topped off with a hat made from pure unobtanium- because “they” harvest your thoughts through Sky dishes you know whilst shaking your rubber gloved hand at the aircraft flying over you sewing their chemtrails willy nilly!

Funny that, I was thinking along the same lines. :laughing: :laughing:

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robroy:

the maoster:

Winseer:
, so I tip spent cat litter studded with turds all over my rubbish - to give any would-be data miners as much fun as possible trying to glean my personal info out of what they find in my dustbins! [emoji38] :smiling_imp: :smiling_imp: :smiling_imp:

I now have a mental image of you doing just that whilst wearing an all in one paper suit- 'cos “they” harvest your DNA doncha know, a respirator picked up from the Army & Navy store topped off with a hat made from pure unobtanium- because “they” harvest your thoughts through Sky dishes you know whilst shaking your rubber gloved hand at the aircraft flying over you sewing their chemtrails willy nilly!

Funny that, I was thinking along the same lines. [emoji38] [emoji38]

Told you so !
THEY are spreading the same thoughts into all our minds! It simply proves the point.

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Think companies have always spied on drivers, i heard in the old days some used to employ a dwarf to sit behind the seats with a bucket of water to keep them cool in weather like this :wink:

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Franglais:

robroy:

the maoster:

Winseer:
, so I tip spent cat litter studded with turds all over my rubbish - to give any would-be data miners as much fun as possible trying to glean my personal info out of what they find in my dustbins! [emoji38] :smiling_imp: :smiling_imp: :smiling_imp:

I now have a mental image of you doing just that whilst wearing an all in one paper suit- 'cos “they” harvest your DNA doncha know, a respirator picked up from the Army & Navy store topped off with a hat made from pure unobtanium- because “they” harvest your thoughts through Sky dishes you know whilst shaking your rubber gloved hand at the aircraft flying over you sewing their chemtrails willy nilly!

Funny that, I was thinking along the same lines. [emoji38] [emoji38]

Told you so !
THEY are spreading the same thoughts into all our minds! It simply proves the point.

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Who’s brainwashing whom here? - Don’t tell me - no one else here has ever mucked out, let alone handled it as material “fit for the dustbin”. Where are these neighborhoods I hear about where the council put cameras into dustbins to catch people out “putting the wrong kind of rubbish in the wrong bins”… Around my way, there used to be problems getting a refuse collection once a week - but that’s now all been solved, with armies of EE agency staff doing the job properly (i.e. “no quibble”) - which is all the punters want. What sterling fellows the EE’S are! :slight_smile:

As it happens - if one’s bin is clearly labelled “refuse” and some rag n bone van decides to rummage around in it, only to find - well erm, “Refuse” of an organic nature - then who’s fault is that?

I don’t put “paperwork” rubbish in with the turds - I just tip it on top of the other organic rubbish like Potato peelings, etc. I’m not the one who makes the decision “I think I’ll check through this rather lumpy bag, and see if I can find some identity-theft stuff within…”

Had a couple of young lads, you know the type “christmas jumpers in the middle of summer” pick up a bag once, open it, realize that it was ■■■, and hastily drop it, spilling litter and turds over the pavement, whilst they make a hasty exit… The whole thing was captured on at least 3 neighbor’s dashcams though, and consequently it is the two lads who “dare not show their faces in this street again”, rather than someone try and suggest that “it is all about my fault for exposing the scumbags to ■■■” like that. Actually, I think the neighbors were cheered by the fact the lads “didn’t come back”… So maybe my social standing has gone up a notch as well. :sunglasses: :grimacing:

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… I was advised by plod that the correct way to use a dashcam with regards to one’s property and car parked outside was to “not pan it” and “point it at your property”, rather than any public thoroughfare, which of course “can still be captured as a by-product” of say, a house cam pointing at one’s parked car out in the street…

No one has been done for “unauthorized footage taking of members of the public walking by” - put it that way.
Indeed, the police are often asking residents for “any camera footage” they might have as well. The violent crime around my neighborhood is quite high, and the highest profile case to be “damned” by video footage was the murdering muslim scumbag who killed a Grandad, Mum, and Child by pouring petrol through the letterbox, and torching their place…

No “Hearsay” here… I don’t make any secret of my dislike of military age Muslim males blagging it around in this country, even if they were born here.

There have also been numerous rapes and stabbings in this neighborhood as well, and let’s say “not a EE Catholic/Orthodox perp among them”…

…just a couple of casual murders in our own local “crime wave” that all too often “doesn’t make the national press” like the recent London Stabbings have done.

Yes, the local Sikh community have a lot of bother from these lowlifes as well, unfortunately. We’ve been here nearly 20 years, and not had a day’s bother from the Sikhs - nor the Balkan Refugees that have since moved into the neighborhood neither.

The point I make here that is “on topic” - is that the Police got camera footage that buried these defendents - by putting them both defendents at the scene of the crime, and exposing third parties helping them as well. I’d say the relationship between the local Neighborhood Watch and the Police is actually quite good, and as a consequence - any oiks trying to make their attack “about the victim breaking the law” in some technicality fashion - will continue to fall flat. Perhaps the Neighborhood Watch should stick up this poster, as well as the more usual “NO cold callers welcome here!” one on lamposts around the community… :bulb:

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I am strongly in FAVOUR of “outward” facing cameras then (assist the police, crime deterrant) - but remain strongly AGAINST “inward” or “driver-facing” cameras. (Invasion of Privacy, excuses to sack people on PC grounds…)

I rest my case.