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a gun handcuffs radio and now a body camera are all part of the uniform for some officers of the Hayward California Police Department we have a headpiece sunglasses through our shoulder you tend to forget about it could still lightweight this department recently purchased 150 Taser brand axon body cameras in order to have a video record of police interactions with the public officers decide when to turn it on and off haywards recorded videos uploaded to their cloud storage it can't be edited or deleted but officers do have the right to review their own footage after 90 days then the footage will fall off if it's marked as evidence though we're going to keep that indefinitely ACLU attorney Chris Conley site's privacy concerns there need to be strict policies around who can access it how long it's retained where it's used but soon it may be more than law enforcement wearing these cameras on the job v view makes a body camera used in more than 4,000 police departments nationwide but it's also marketing a consumer model for other professionals we've had school bus drivers we've had teachers we've got dentist it's amazing the amount of people that have things happen in their life that they want to record so they can protect themselves later people want what benefits them on the record and yet they also want to have the privacy to go about their lives and not be monitored all the time these types of body cams are not much different than other wearable consumer cameras like Google glass or go pro so widespread adoption could mean even less privacy for everyone in public in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News