How Airlines don’t care about privacy: Case Study Emirates.com

Post by craftyguy » Mon, Mar 05, 2018, 5:13 AM UTC

on_and_off wrote: post #59

hermitdev wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm waiting for someone to state "when you're not paying for something, you are the product", except in this case, you are paying for something, yet you're still the product. This is just...disgusting.

This is why we should stop quoting that all the time. Just because you are paying for a product does not prevent your data from being sold or used in unethical ways.

Post by untog » Mon, Mar 05, 2018, 5:38 AM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #72

United857 wrote: post #65

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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

Post by Matheus28 » Mon, Mar 05, 2018, 5:46 AM UTC

Too wrote: post #84

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.

Post by chmars » Mon, Mar 05, 2018, 6:50 AM UTC

Matheus28 wrote: post #85

Too wrote: post #84

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.

Post by crowbahr » Mon, Mar 05, 2018, 7:01 AM UTC

Too wrote: post #84

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.