BK deploying AI surveillance cameras in the workplace
I've got an acquaintance that works at a BK and their workplace recently got fitted with "AI Cameras" that monitor (including audio) everything they do both on the floor and in the break room, this is on top of the "patty" system that monitors their headsets. They were pretty freaked out, understandably in my opinion, I wouldn't want to be under this kind of constant oppressive surveillance. To top it off, they weren't given any kind of formal notification that these would be installed or anything.
To me that feels very dehumanizing and just disrespectful to these employees as people. Just another step in a worrying move towards some sort of weird corpo tech dystopia where people have no privacy and workers are treated as faceless cattle, and while I'm not a privacy expert, this feels egregious and unreasonably intrusive.
I'm pretty far removed from the retail and hospo industries these days, but is this kind of thing common these days? And am I just out of touch with peoples attitudes on surveillance and privacy (I still believe in net neutrality lol), are people really okay with this?