Parents Spying On a Nanny

Parents Spying On a Nanny
Short Title	Parents Spy On a Nanny Without Her Knowledge Or Consent
Location	United States
Date	August 2019
Solove Harm	Surveillance, Exclusion
Information	Communication, Identifying, Physical Characteristics, Preference, Family, Ethnicity, Behavioral, Knowledge and Belief
Threat Actors	Parents who hired the nanny
Individuals
Affected	Nanny
High Risk Groups	Employees, Ethnic Minority
Tangible Harms	Anxiety

A woman working as a nanny found out that her employers were recording her without her knowledge or consent.

Description

A woman working as a nanny found out parents were recording her without her knowledge or permission.

She realized the family she had been working for as a nanny had been recording her voice without her consent. She found out by chance, when employer wanted to tell her something about her spouse and said “Let’s go into another room,” she said in a whisper. “The camera is on.”

The nanny says she was aware of the camera in the room, but that comment revealed that the camera was also recording the sound. ^Surveillance. It was recording everything she said, whether it had to do with her job as a nanny or not.

Even though she says she has no problem with nanny cams in general, it was troubling to learn that all this time her voice was also being recorded — day and night — without her knowledge or permission. ^Exclusion

She found out that her employers had been recording her conversations, she didn’t have the courage to object or talk about it. The fear she had developed earlier as an undocumented immigrant was still present.

The Matahari Women Workers’ Center in Boston conducted in-person surveys with more than 100 nannies about their rights and how they felt about being surveilled. Sixty-three percent of the nannies we surveyed did not know whether their voices were being recorded.