A Ford employee says he lost his job after being accused of stealing a $1.95 cookie, only for the company to later realize he’d actually paid for it.
60-year-old Kurt Kromm had worked at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant for 11 years, but told Shifting Gears he was fired after the company believed security footage showed him taking a cookie from the break room without paying.
The face camera is actually a really good idea. And for a few hundred dollars, that driver is not alert let’s pull off the road safely could be handled in car, on local models and never have to send any fucking telemetry off to anywhere.
But of course, that info will be sold.
In principle that application of a face camera holds up, subjectively.
In practice that won’t be it’s primary use case.
It absolutely will bes sold, even if they are banned from saving face profiles directly (which ostensibly they are, for now) it’ll just be “anonymous’” data collection. Until they get caught, then they’ll pay a cost of doing business tax (fine) and continue on their way.
It’s just another vector for creeping changes that invade privacy for the benefit of corporations out the continued tightening population control of governments.
In this case, think ring doorbells + GPS as an opening gambit.
Like how courts orders for “all of the phones in a particular area at a particular time” are a thing, but with a mandatory face cam.
edit : because these are the type of activities that go on at these companies, unchecked mostly.
edit edit : God dammit ford