• DosDude👾
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    149 months ago

    It’s illegal to spy on your workers through a camera in most EU countries. Why should GPS tracking be legal?

    • kick_out_the_jams
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      209 months ago

      A camera and GPS are two very different technologies with distinct capabilities that do not overlap.

      • @[email protected]
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        29 months ago

        I mean they both will reveal your location at a given time, so I’d say there’s some overlap.

      • DosDude👾
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        19 months ago

        I agree. But the post I replied to literally describes a way for the employer to spy.

        Rather than the employer spying, how about we keep the timer local on the vehicle. You don’t even need GPS for that either. Vehicle on, timer starts. Beeping after set amount of time. Beeping gets louder for every 10/15 minutes ignored. Insert an alucap condensator and resistor to not reset the timer after a certain amount of time.

        But I have no experience with truckers or their vehicles. So I might as well just be talking out of my ass.

    • @[email protected]
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      59 months ago

      It can also tie into mandatary rests, that the vehicle has to be stationary. And that is good thing as it makes it harder for emplyers to exploit their drivers.

    • @[email protected]
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      29 months ago

      You are registering where your own vehicle is driven by an employee that should not be using it for personal things anyway. In contrast to his/her face, this is not registering anything personal about this employee.

    • @[email protected]
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      19 months ago

      Can you elaborate? Is it illegal to have security cameras in a business if that means that an employee may be on it?

      • DosDude👾
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        19 months ago

        It’s illegal, at least in my country, to use your camera to keep an eye on your employees. You can only view it in case of illegal activities, for example something being stolen, etc. You also cannot save the footage for more than a certain amount of time, unless it needs to be used for an investigation of said illegal activities. I think it was 2 weeks, but I’m not sure.

        Using the camera to check up if your employees are working is illegal.