[bigiain]

> They're typically not going to be watching it 24/7. They'll only look at the tapes if something occurs.

This is the kind of tortured thinking that lets The NSA look a judge in the eye and not laugh out loud as they say "Bulk internet collection is not 'surveillance' and so it doesn't require a warrant. It's only after we've keyword searched the data and then have a agent look at the returned results that it becomes 'surveillance'."

I'm sorry but words have meanings, and you don't get to make up your own meanings just because the law prohibits you under the well understood meaning of a word.

Video recording your employees 24x7 is creepy and wrong, no matter whether you never view the recordings or not.

[nickff]

Speaking as someone who worked at an electronics retailer (many years ago), I would prefer the video surveillance over the constant searches.

You shouldn't be so quick to accuse someone of tortured thinking. From HN guidelines: "When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3.""

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[josefx]

> Speaking as someone who worked at an electronics retailer (many years ago), I would prefer the video surveillance over the constant searches.

You probably would prefer neither over both. This case only says that doing constant video surveillance without sufficient cause is illegal. It doesn't say anything about the legality of constant searches without sufficient cause either, just that it may have been a better solution if they actually had a cause.

[esperent]

> constant searches

Where did you pull this from? It's random searches, occasional, and only if there's enough theft happening to justify it otherwise the searches would be illegal too.

[Aerroon]

I consider random bag checks way more invasive than constant video surveillance. With video surveillance I know where it is and the contents of my bag will remain private. If my employer could do a ransom bag check on me then I would have no such guarantee.