Southeast To Start Video Monitoring Flights

NormalVisual writes "According to this article, Southeast Airlines will begin digitally recording everything that goes on during one of their flights. Moreover, they have said they will be retaining the recorded video for up to 10 years. The privacy implications here are worrying, and this sets a bad precedent, IMO." (Southeast is a charter company, not a big scheduled carrier.)

Comments

School Buses

[haydenth]

When I was a kid, they used to have cameras on our school busses. Nobody was really sure whether they were 'on' or not. The bus drives used to use it as leverage so we didn't screw around.

Re:What right to privacy do you think you have

[NineNine]

Actually, you're not even in public on their planes. It's their property, they can tape whatever they want (as long as they tell you). Don't like it, don't fly their airline.

Re:What right to privacy do you think you have

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah and swimming halls can freely put cameras in the showers?

Just because they are providing the service, doesn't mean that they can do anything with your private information.

Transparent Society

[mcrbids]

Every time I see an article like this, I'm reminded of another work I consider a landmark - The Transparent Society.

I find it quite amazing that this work in 1996 highlighted so many issues now coming to bear - such as this one - and the article is clearly written.

Here's the first thing I'd change - All audio and video collected by any police organization should be public record 14 days after it was first recorded.

Access to the video in realtime as suggested by the above article (You did READ it, didn't you?) can be used to tactical advantage by criminal organizations - but the 14 day delay would have the same effect of keeping the cops honest without surrendering any meaningful tactical information.

Then, we could expand out from there.