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>>I will bet some money that they have not been used nefariously by AA or SQ. not yet Given the last 20 years of bad behavior from tech companies overall, and

>>I will bet some money that they have not been used nefariously by AA or SQ. not yet Given the last 20 years of bad behavior from tech companies overall, and the steady erosion of privacy in nearly all quarters, I question your confidence and must ask "based on what?"

kortilla 8y ago
AA isn’t a tech company. There revenue isn’t based on selling eyeballs.
- Nextgrid 8y ago
  They can always diversify and milk out even more money out of their customers.
  - pixl97 8y ago
    To exit plane, PLEASE DRINK VERIFICATION CAN
- Teever 8y ago
  Those in seat screens have advertisements on them you know.
  - trophycase 8y ago
    Don't forget the brainwash about their company they make you watch while you're strapped into a seat with nowhere else to look.
netsharc 8y ago
Based on my belief that developing software for it would not be cheap (hello, contractors), and that I don't see a use case how it could make more money for the airline (fine maybe I'm just not creative enough). They could have analytics that say "Passenger X (profile: male, paid with a platinum credit card, flew 5 times in the last 6 months) watched movie Y for 40 minutes before looking up the price for the WiFi connectivity and deciding against it (pressing Cancel) after 2 minutes. Passenger turned off the display and only turned it on again 2 hours later at 9:45 PM (the flight attendants started serving food at 9:40 PM), suggesting the passenger slept until they started serving dinner.", but for that they don't need a camera, they can just use analytics software that already monitor your activity inside mobile apps.
- imtringued 8y ago
  >Based on my belief that developing software for it would not be cheap (hello, contractors) It would be extremely cheap, that's why they chose android based tablets in the first place and the government has deep enough pockets to try to break TLS. Developing an app that records a video to storage is completely trivial.

kortilla 8y ago

AA isn’t a tech company. There revenue isn’t based on selling eyeballs.

Nextgrid 8y ago
They can always diversify and milk out even more money out of their customers.
- pixl97 8y ago
  To exit plane, PLEASE DRINK VERIFICATION CAN
Teever 8y ago
Those in seat screens have advertisements on them you know.
- trophycase 8y ago
  Don't forget the brainwash about their company they make you watch while you're strapped into a seat with nowhere else to look.

netsharc 8y ago

Based on my belief that developing software for it would not be cheap (hello, contractors), and that I don't see a use case how it could make more money for the airline (fine maybe I'm just not creative enough). They could have analytics that say "Passenger X (profile: male, paid with a platinum credit card, flew 5 times in the last 6 months) watched movie Y for 40 minutes before looking up the price for the WiFi connectivity and deciding against it (pressing Cancel) after 2 minutes. Passenger turned off the display and only turned it on again 2 hours later at 9:45 PM (the flight attendants started serving food at 9:40 PM), suggesting the passenger slept until they started serving dinner.", but for that they don't need a camera, they can just use analytics software that already monitor your activity inside mobile apps.

imtringued 8y ago
>Based on my belief that developing software for it would not be cheap (hello, contractors) It would be extremely cheap, that's why they chose android based tablets in the first place and the government has deep enough pockets to try to break TLS. Developing an app that records a video to storage is completely trivial.