Video call verification -- yay or nay?
Can anybody help talk me through the various issues and concerns with a video call for verification? In my time here it seems more common for escorts to request this and, apparently, for guys to agree, than in the US. The girls say it's for safety and for comfort in deciding to see you, and they also say it's good for us guys to see that they are real as well. So what are the pitfalls?
Since the beginning I've always refused this and moved onto the next (in the US) but after arriving here and being tempted several times, I'm now considering breaking my rule. My fear is being recorded, and the recording being used to identify and / or blackmail me. However I'd imagine the chances of being able to identify me are fairly slim since I don't think there's available access to a facial recognition database that I'm part of, and in any case I can keep the chat completely innocuous so there's plausible deniability that the video chat was just to meet someone online (I do chat with random new people online semi-routinely).
So, any reasons why I should or shouldn't stick to this rule?