It will soon be mandatory for trucks in B.C. to have dashcams (globalnews.ca)

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[-] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 15 points 2 weeks ago

The bill covers only outward-facing cameras, not cameras inside the cab, addressing privacy concerns raised in committee.

Here's the bill (emphasis added).

"dashboard camera" means a recording device that is capable of continuously recording the view of the road in front of a commercial vehicle through the commercial vehicle's front windshield at all times when the commercial vehicle is operating, and meets the following criteria:

(a) retains at least 72 hours of recording;

(b) records at a minimum video format of high-definition video at a resolution of 1080p;

(c) has night vision capability;

(d) records at the manufacturer's default settings on the device's local storage;.

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Any recording made by a dashboard camera must be collected, used, disclosed, retained and destroyed in accordance with all applicable privacy and security requirements, including the Personal Information Protection Act.

[-] 007ace@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

The bill as it is written doesn't appear to be a problem. But the implementation needs to be monitored by those affected. A small company can grab a cheap dash cam from Amazon that has all sorts of capabilities that extend past what is currently allowed. And those features have a cost that is usually offset by selling data somehow. I found one model that didn't have a mic as a feature, but it was available if a firmware patch was applied.