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Well, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will become enforceable in May (for all people in the EU). As far as I understand, Emirates is risking big fines if they they don't fix this by May 25.
Even though they are not based out of EU and only operate in EU?
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Well, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will become enforceable in May (for all people in the EU). As far as I understand, Emirates is risking big fines if they they don't fix this by May 25.
Even though they are not based out of EU and only operate in EU?
I oftentimes reach for my 'call the regulator' button when I read these articles. Whats odd is how many people say "god no..." as if there was some consequential downside to using the very government entity we created (in law) to make corporate entities "do the right thing" when they don't appear to want to do it voluntarily. So.. here we go. Explain to me, why we don't want to enact law to require (through regulatio…
I oftentimes reach for my 'call the regulator' button when I read these articles. And what regulator is that? Does Dubai even have a "regulator" overseeing stuff like this? Emirates is wholly owned by the government of Dubai. So basically you would be complaining about one Dubai government agency to another Dubai government agency. Perhaps you could complain about this to some US or EU regulator? Would they care enou…
These magic URLs that can log you in automatically, generally ought to necessitate a very high degree of paranoia from whoever is implementing them. In this case the single point of failure seems like the leaky referrer, which ought to have been noticed as part of the aforementioned paranoia. I guess the problem here is that from an overall experience POV you want users to be able to get to their booking from their e…
Installing uBlock Origin on mobile Firefox is trivial.
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Sounds like KLM: https://www.klm.com/travel/us_en/prepare_for_travel/on_board... This is on a strictly opt-in basis. I guess it's an interesting alternative to Tinder if you're going to be stuck on a plane. (Disclaimer: I've never tried it myself)
Apparently on Virgin Airlines there are chat rooms on the planes. Those have only two practical use cases: dating, and trolling: https://twitter.com/KrangTNelson/status/959907806622121984
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Well, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will become enforceable in May (for all people in the EU). As far as I understand, Emirates is risking big fines if they they don't fix this by May 25.
Even though they are not based out of EU and only operate in EU?
They have assets (and even more, they want to land in EU airports) in the EU so yes the EU can force them to comply even if they don't want to.
From my experience the travel industry are the worst offenders of data security. I remember making booking on booking.com and not having to pay for my booking, and I wondered how hotels can confirm bookings, when I went to check in at the hotel I asked this question to the front desk staff, and they simply told me “oh we get a fax or email from the OTA of your credit card information”. You can imagine the look on my…
Of course, you then have to provide your credit card or another mean of payment to the hotel on arrival for insurance.
PS: and this is pretty much the why of how something as reviled by merchants as paypal is thriving, as a customer I love it.
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The quote is not wrong. If you aren't paying for something, then 100% of the time you are the product. If you are paying for something, then <100% of the time you are also the product.
I don't pay for wikipedia (actually I do via donations and edits but that's not the point) but I don't see anything bad about their BM.
Nothing will happen until a malicious party ends up cancelling an entire flight’s worth of passengers and it starts costing them serious money and reputation. It’s a sad state of affairs when there is no ethical way to correct certain grossly unethical business practices.
> malicious party Which one? Google, Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, Crazy Egg, Criteo or NSA listening on the wire? My apologies if you disagree, but I feel that the article is borderline alarmist and I believe is written in the worst possible tone to communicate the problem. Yup, there is a shitton of analytics products. Yes, PII is leaked and this needs to be fixed. But, no, it's not like listed parties (BTW,…
Or anyone exploiting either of those parties' bad security. That's an enormous attack surface. Also add the passenger's email provider to that list.
That's pretty bad, but frankly he could have communicated better to Emirates. If I was working as first line support and received that message with "omg do you know you are sharing fields a, b and c to partners. And maybe you are sharing with x, y and z also?" , without any technical details at all, I would also give a canned response, tag it as tinfoil hat and throw it into the junk.
Exactly. Twitter isn't the medium to report this sort of problem. Ask for an email address for security vulnerabilities, and send it there.
Again, I am more than happy to report it proper channels. I understand the reasons of ethically reporting such issues.
I would really appreciate it, can you help me find correct channel even now for Emirates, Lufthansa, KLM, Air-France ?
