More and more retail stores in the u k. are outfitting their workers with body camps. This is being done as a way to protect store workers from rude and abusive customers. Abuse by customers towards shop workers was rising before the pandemic in britain. Tesco, which is enslargest supermarket chain, says the number of serious violent incidents has fallen by more than a fifth since it rolled out body cameras during the pandemic. The ethical debates about the use of this technology also apply here, right? So, yes, privacy is a massive concern. But advocates of these systems say that the recording is really only happening when a staff member is having an altercation with a irate customer