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by sterlind 867 days ago
No, but I'm also not driving hundreds of souls around near mach 1 strapped to 100k gallons of jet fuel. And when I've worked in government environments I had escorts watching my screen like a hawk the entire time.

Not to mention the tapes are only pulled if there's an incident. You could even have a little tamper seal on it to show if it's been downloaded. This is absurd.
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RankingMember 867 days ago
See also: police bodycams

If you have the capacity to end peoples' lives with an arm spasm I think your privacy should rightfully take a backseat.

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wkipling 867 days ago
Absolutely not. Body cams mute the first part of the audio for this exact reason. Privacy is important.
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ceejayoz 867 days ago
The issue with police body cam audio is that they are regularly recording non-police who do have a right to privacy. That's not an issue for pilot cockpit recordings. (If it is, you've got an incident that should be recorded.)

The muting you observe of police footage isn't of the first part of the audio, it's the prior 30 seconds from before the record button is pressed. They have a constant buffer going, as things can happen... unexpectedly.

This caught a cop in Baltimore; he wasn't aware of or had forgotten the feature. The 30 second buffer caught him planting drugs, then faking the finding. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/20/538279258...

Side note: It took years to charge him (https://www.baltimoresun.com/2020/03/09/caught-fabricating-e...) and he served no jail time for trying to send an innocent person to jail (https://www.wbaltv.com/article/officer-testifies-in-own-defe...).

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pests 867 days ago
> The muting you observe of police footage isn't of the first part of the audio, it's the prior 30 seconds from before the record button is pressed. They have a constant buffer going, as things can happen... unexpectedly.

I just want to clarify that it only buffers the video. The way you worded it still doesn't explain why the previous 30 seconds of audio isn't included in the buffering.

When the button is pressed is when audio recording is started and the previous 30 seconds of video buffer is prepended to the live recording.

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