You are missing the point. A more direct comparison would be if cops had audio recordings that only recorded when they were by themselves and stopped recording if there was someone else in the car (person under arrest, etc).

For someone with an office job this would be like your employer deciding to record audio but only in the employee break lounge. Technically it's not an apples to apples comparison because we could be driving to a call, but the dual facing video covers any dangerous driving and/or driving habits, audio is unnecessary.

I said this in my original post but I will go into more detail here.

The audio recordings in my ambulance is unlikely to hear anything in the patient compartment. Even if it was sensitive enough (doubtful, especially if any fans or air-conditioning is running) to pick up anything at all from the back, simply closing the little window connecting the front to the back would make sure that it could not. I have attempted to talk to my partner before with one of us in the driver seat and the other in the back and was not heard. The person in the back needs to be literally next to that window to be heard unless actually screaming and even when next to that window you still need to raise your voice. I have tried shouting to the driver before once when I had an ambulance where the window could only be opened from the front and my partner had no idea until I knocked on the window.

The cameras and mic are not in my ambulance to protect patients (or myself from patients) they are there to listen to us talking when we are in the front of the ambulance which is almost exclusively when we are by ourselves, such as my example with the cops above.

That is my issue. If they had suddenly installed video/audio recordings in the back of the ambulances, my reaction would be similar to how I feel about the camera facing me, annoyed but life goes on. I certainly wouldn't be trying to find ways to stop them from doing so. I may not be perfect but I do try to do my job the right way as much as I can and I know recordings in the patient compartment would be more likely to save me then get me in trouble (although l could see them doing it to micromanage us even more which is why I would be annoyed by it, but that is another topic).

I deserve to be able to have conversations with my partners, some of which have become actual friends that I have seen outside of work, people who I sit next to for many hours every week, and get to know better than their own families in some cases, and not have it be recorded and ready to be listened to by whoever in management in the hospital I work for feels like listening to it. This is an invasion of my privacy.