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My wife, newly hired, was asked to un-blur her camera during a routine meeting to confirm her I9 information. This seems like a violation to me? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by shalafi@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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She had interviewed and met both remotely and in person, this guy was merely an HR drone confirming her documentation. I was a little bent when she told me he had asked her to remove her blur filter "to have a look at her working environment, make sure it's not cluttered" (something along those lines). No one else at this company requested such. Was he way out of line?

I should note, this is my PC in our living room and not where she will be working from. And this guy wants a look around our home?! Told my wife to bring this up once she's settled in, ask HR if this is policy. She started today!

She thinks it's a racism thing. I'm not so sure, but I don't have any other explanation.

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[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

OP should consider screen-recording her zoom calls.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Anybody know a good screen recording program for Linux that doesn't alert Zoom to the recording?

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Run Zoom in a VM and record from the host maybe?

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 4 points 3 months ago

If you use the browser version of Zoom, it would have no way to know

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

The Zoom client alerts all parties. You could use another screen recorder, but this is a two-party recording state, straight illegal to record someone without their consent.