Recording is not evidence. Provenance is.

Body-worn cameras and the software that governs the footage. Worn by mining crews, linesmen, emergency-department security, drivers and retail staff. Configured to the law of the state it works in.

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01The argument

A file on a card proves nothing.

What survives scrutiny is provenance — who captured it, who touched it, what was disclosed, and under whose law it was lawful to capture at all. The audit trail is the product. The camera is just where it starts.

  1. 01
    Capture

    Who captured it.

    Operator, device, time, place and a cryptographic seal — bound to the footage at the moment of capture, not added afterwards.

    Operator 0417 · Device BODY-00931 · 14:03:22.041 AEST · SHA-256 sealed

  2. 02
    Custody

    Who touched it.

    Every upload, view, export and redaction is written to a ledger the footage cannot be separated from. Nothing is altered without a record. Nothing is deleted without one either.

    Upload 14:31:07 · Gateway SYD-2 · Hash match · Access ×3 · Alterations 0

  3. 03
    Disclosure

    What was disclosed.

    Who received it, which version, on what basis, approved by whom. Publication is a separate offence in every Australian jurisdiction, so the system treats every export as a legal act.

    Request #2231 · Basis recorded · Approved 0102 · Redactions 2 · Recipient logged

  4. 04
    Jurisdiction

    Under whose law.

    Consent, notice and what counts as private differ by state. The device knows which regime it is working under and behaves accordingly — before the first frame is written.

    Profile NSW-07 · Surveillance Devices Act 2007 (NSW) · Workplace notice on file

02Who wears it

The category was invented for police. Almost nobody who wears one is a police officer.

Ours are worn by people whose word gets doubted — on haul roads, up poles, at triage desks, on doorsteps and at the counter. Nobody here is chasing anyone. They're trying to get through a shift and have it believed.

  • Mining crews Surface · oil & gas · hard rock

    A haul road at four in the morning and a near miss nobody agrees about.

  • Linesmen Distribution · transmission

    A live conductor, a property owner at the gate, and a decision made in a hurry.

  • ED security Emergency departments

    Two a.m., eleven hours in, and a family that has had enough.

  • Drivers Freight · delivery · transit

    A drop that is not going well, on a doorstep the dashcam can't see.

  • Retail staff Front of house

    A refund that has turned, with the shop full.

Everyone working in the field deserves evidence on their side.

03Eight regimes

Australia is eight legal regimes, not one.

The same recording can be lawful in Mount Isa and an offence in Kalgoorlie.

Surveillance law is written by the states and territories, and it differs in every one — who has to consent, what counts as private, what notice a workplace owes. Publication is a separate offence in all eight. Products built for American police were not built around any of this. Every TENVA device carries all eight profiles and runs the one for the site it's assigned to.

Map of Australia showing the eight jurisdictions. The active jurisdiction is highlighted as you read each profile.

Device
BODY-00931
Profile
— —/08
Statute
Awaiting location
Audio
—

  1. Profile WA-9801 / 08

    Western Australia

    Statute
    Surveillance Devices Act 1998 (WA)
    Scope
    Listening · optical · tracking
    Audio
    All-party consent, with statutory exceptions
    Publication
    Separate offence — export locked to a recorded lawful basis
    Device
    Front-screen ID on · consent notice on · audio gated

  2. Profile NT-0702 / 08

    Northern Territory

    Statute
    Surveillance Devices Act 2007 (NT)
    Scope
    Listening · optical · tracking · data
    Audio
    A party may record, within statutory limits
    Publication
    Separate offence — export locked to a recorded lawful basis
    Device
    Front-screen ID on · consent notice on

  3. Profile QLD-7103 / 08

    Queensland

    Statute
    Invasion of Privacy Act 1971 (Qld)
    Scope
    Listening devices
    Audio
    A party may record, within statutory limits
    Publication
    Separate offence — recording is broad here; sharing is the constraint. Export locked to a recorded lawful basis
    Device
    Front-screen ID on · consent notice on

  4. Profile SA-1604 / 08

    South Australia

    Statute
    Surveillance Devices Act 2016 (SA)
    Scope
    Listening · optical · tracking · data
    Audio
    All-party consent, with statutory exceptions
    Publication
    Separate offence — export locked to a recorded lawful basis
    Device
    Front-screen ID on · consent notice on · audio gated

  5. Profile NSW-0705 / 08

    New South Wales

    Statute
    Surveillance Devices Act 2007 (NSW)
    Scope
    Listening · optical · tracking · data
    Audio
    All-party consent, with statutory exceptions
    Workplace
    Workplace Surveillance Act 2005 (NSW) — notice to employees
    Publication
    Separate offence — export locked to a recorded lawful basis
    Device
    Front-screen ID on · consent notice on · audio gated · notice on file

  6. Profile ACT-9206 / 08

    Australian Capital Territory

    Statute
    Listening Devices Act 1992 (ACT)
    Scope
    Listening devices
    Audio
    All-party consent, with statutory exceptions
    Workplace
    Workplace Privacy Act 2011 (ACT) — notice to employees
    Publication
    Separate offence — export locked to a recorded lawful basis
    Device
    Front-screen ID on · consent notice on · audio gated · notice on file

  7. Profile VIC-9907 / 08

    Victoria

    Statute
    Surveillance Devices Act 1999 (Vic)
    Scope
    Listening · optical · tracking · data
    Audio
    A party may record, within statutory limits
    Publication
    Separate offence — export locked to a recorded lawful basis
    Device
    Front-screen ID on · consent notice on

  8. Profile TAS-9108 / 08

    Tasmania

    Statute
    Listening Devices Act 1991 (Tas)
    Scope
    Listening devices
    Audio
    All-party consent, with statutory exceptions
    Publication
    Separate offence — the lawful-interest test applies again at disclosure
    Device
    Front-screen ID on · consent notice on · audio gated

Set by where it works, not where it was sold.

Profiles summarise the obligations we configure for. They are not legal advice, and they are reviewed against current legislation at every firmware release.

04Hardware

Transparency made physical.

The TENVA Body has two screens. The rear one is for the wearer. The front one faces the person being recorded and tells them who is wearing it and that it's on — consent you can point to.

OPERATOR0417RECORDINGNSW-0714:03:22
Front elevationSubject-facing
REC71%14:03:22NSW-07 · SEALED
Rear elevationWearer-facing
Side elevationClip mount

DRG TB-GA-01Rev ANot to scaleRenders to follow

  • Two screens
  • Wearer ID shown to the subject
  • Eight jurisdiction profiles
  • Built for surface, oil & gas and hard rock

Coming: Body EX for hazardous areas (hard rock, oil & gas) · Link for live streaming and dispatch · Dock for automated offload and retention.

05Platform

The hardware collects. The platform makes it defensible.

Three pieces of software govern every frame a TENVA device captures — hosted in Australia, and built for the eight-jurisdiction reality of Australian law.

TENVA Evidence

Chain of custody from capture to hearing. Every view, export and edit is logged against a user. Footage is immutable — the audit trail is the product.

Sealed storage · access ledger · disclosure workflow

TENVA Redact

AI-assisted redaction before disclosure. Detection proposes the faces and number plates to blur, and a person approves every export. It finds faces to hide them, not to identify anyone — and it is designed to run onshore, so footage never has to leave Australia.

Detection, not recognition · derivative sealed · original untouched

Only in AU

TENVA Comply

Australia has no single recording rule. Comply holds the differences between the eight jurisdictions and configures each device to the state it is working in.

Eight profiles · consent gating · publication lock

06Custody

Every touch, on the record.

Footage is sealed with a hash the instant it's captured and never exists unsigned. From there, every upload, view, export, redaction and disclosure is appended to a ledger the footage can't be separated from. When it's challenged — and it will be — the record answers, not the operator's memory.

TimeEventDetailHashState
14:03:22.041CaptureBODY-00931 · Operator 0417 · Profile NSW-079f3a…c1e4Sealed
14:03:22.041NoticeFront-screen ID displayed · audio consent gate passed—Logged
14:31:07.902UploadGateway SYD-2 · hash re-verified on arrival9f3a…c1e4Match
15:02:11.330AccessSupervisor 0102 · Incident #2231 · reason recorded—Logged
15:14:48.017RedactionTwo faces · derivative sealed · original untouchedb77d…08aaSealed
16:40:03.555DisclosureInsurer · lawful basis recorded · approved 0102b77d…08aaApproved
—AlterationNone. The original has never been opened for writing.9f3a…c1e4Intact

Example record. Identifiers illustrative.

07Company

Australian entity. Australian data.

TENVA is an Australian company, based in Sydney. Footage stays in Australia, under Australian law, answerable to Australian courts — because where your evidence lives is a legal question before it's a technical one.

Entity
TENVA Pty Ltd · Australia
ABN
32 702 008 268
Based in
Sydney · NSW
Data residency
Australia only
Governing law
Australian
Built for
Surface · oil & gas · hard rock
Status
Pre-launch · prototypes in hand · first models entering Australian certification (RCM)

PROVE IT.

Everyone working in the field deserves evidence on their side.

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