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Lawmakers Press Industry Witnesses on In‑cab Recording, Privacy and Potential Misuse of AI Monitoring

House Education and Labor Committee, Subcommittee on Workforce Protections · February 12, 2026
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Representative Casar and other members pressed industry witnesses about whether employer-configured in‑cab cameras and AI systems could record private calls or be used to identify union organizers; the Samsara witness said extended recording is "theoretically possible" but said he was not aware of customers using it that way.

Representative Casar pressed Johan Land of Samsara on whether in-cab cameras can record drivers for the full duration of a trip and whether recordings can continue after a vehicle stops, potentially capturing private phone calls. "It is possible that they could record them the whole time they drive," Land testified, and later described continuous or post-stop recording as "theoretically possible" depending on…

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