American Airlines Has Cameras in Their Screens Too
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American Airlines Has Cameras in Their Screens Too
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#2How can you have privacy concerns in a completely public space?
Re: American Airlines Has Cameras in Their Screens Too
#3How can you have privacy concerns in a completely public space?
Would you want to go to a movie theatre where audience engagement is recorded by a hidden, undisclosed camera? Would you prefer that? People are right to have instinctual suspicion of being covertly spied upon en masse in public spaces.
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#4How can you have privacy concerns in a completely public space?
What definition of "completely public" are you using that would include a privately-owned airplane that I spent $100+ to board after going through a security checkpoint?
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#5This seems like a cost issue. Aside from the privacy issues, it’s gotta be cheaper to buy a pile of COTS tablets and bolt them to your airline seats than commission a custom form factor and hardware spec.
That said, this is actually a time when physically occluding the camera makes sense.
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#6How can you have privacy concerns in a completely public space?
"To continue watching your in-flight movie, please watch this ad, note looking away from the screen will pause the ad while we wait for your gaze to return."
That is an entirely realistic scenario, patents have been granted for this already. Regardless of an expectation of privacy it is potentially a terrible UX as well.
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#7How can you have privacy concerns in a completely public space?
I think the people who disagree with this reply should explain their reasoning.
You're in public on an aircraft, you have no reasonable expectation of privacy. The people around you, including the airline's staff, can listen to your conversations/see you.
I'm not even arguing legally, even just in terms of common sense, everything you do or say is isn't private in those circumstances. So a camera being there (regardless of if it is used) isn't moving the needle either direction.
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#8Most of these are just COTS Android tablets. When they reboot the IFE, you sometimes see the Android soft home/menu button on the bottom.
It's easy enough to repair, too -- just apply some opaque tape to the camera.
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#9How can you have privacy concerns in a completely public space?
An airplane isn't really public space like the street, since you can't just waltz into an airplane free of charge, and airplanes are not generally owned directly by the public. They are managed places open to the public for a price, and that payment comes with certain expectations (e.g., there wasn't a camera present 20 years ago, why should it be present now?)
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#10The real question is, why didn't AA & Singapore Airlines not put a sticker on top of the camera instead of having all this negative publicity? QA was probably concerned about something else.