[yc12340]

Because employers can prevent employees from recording them, but not vice-versa.

An imaginary world, where everyone is allowed to wiretap everyone non-stop, might be fine. But in the real world such ability is hindered by the morals, right of private property and major imbalance of power between people. As such, it is better to explicitly whitelist the few select cases, when surveillance is permitted — lest the society engages in race to the bottom, where every employer will try to give their workers as little privacy as possible.

[thkim]

I'm not sure what you mean by "employer can prevent employees from taping them." Do you mean you assume management corner offices are not taped? That's a problem with corporate culture, not video surveillance.

I still don't see a problem with video surveillance, with full disclosure and proper access controls. What difference is there with police getting a warrant to search your house?