If I ever get widowed or end up in a position where I have responsibilities over others, I will most certainly use a body camera. False accusations are a ticking time bomb for male teachers, and it’s not unreasonable to expect the same issues in any position where you have responsibility over females regardless of their age. Even in a company as a middle manager, you have to understand that HR is there to protect the company, not you. If they get even the most flimsy-arsed accusation of misconduct against you, chances are you will become promoted to unemployment as quickly as HR can manage it without causing an even bigger legal hassle.

The time will come when you can obtain a button-sized camera that records in HD, saves to a SD card, but also uploads in real-time (both wifi & cell) to a storage server of your own choosing (Key point: under your own control, not anyone else’s!!). When that time comes, we might have a fighting chance.

But even now, there is a lot you can do to protect yourself without relying on outside services. Build a pfSense firewall router that can record everything that goes in our out of your home network, so you don’t have to rely on outside services such as Google (which can and do re-sell your behaviour to third parties). Get it to log everything. Encrypt and triple-store the log files (3-2-1 rule), and make it an automated process, too, so it’s not subject to human forgetfulness. You can even make that router give you a secure VPN to the wider world, so you are protected online, and provided you have a static IP you can even use it as a VPN provider for your mobile devices when they are on LTE.

I would go so far as to wire the home up with video monitoring. Use wired connections, as wireless is almost trivially easy to crack, even from the street. You don’t want strangers inside your home network probing what should normally be protected by your router’s firewall! In a one-party consent area, you can cover almost every part of your house where privacy is not assumed. This means pretty well everything except for the washrooms and bedrooms. In a two-party consent area, you just need warning messages on all doors, and you may have to turn off audio as well (this protects your arse, as video without audio does not violate two-party consent in many such areas).

Even in today’s world, there is a lot that can be done. You just need to be vigilant.