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British Airways Plans To Google Passengers

Posted by timothy on from the only-miscreants-and-terrorists-would-object dept.

itwbennett writes "British Airways wants to be the airline where everybody knows your name. The idea behind the 'Know Me' program is that by using Google Images to ID passengers, they'll be able to recreate the 'feeling of recognition you get in a favourite restaurant,' Jo Boswell, head of customer analysis at BA told the London Evening Standard. But the more privacy minded among us know that the airline could end up seeing a lot more than your face."

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  1. Re:What if your name doesn't come up? by Gordonjcp · · Score: -1, Troll

    My real name is fairly uncommon and I use it on social networking sites, because I'm not a tinfoil-hat-wearing secrecy wonk. Despite this, the only images of me that come up for my name are my github and facebook "avatar".

    Even searching for my nick that I use everywhere and have done since the early 90s, I only show up twice on the first page of results - one of those being the aforementioned avatar, and one taken years ago at a barbecue. My cat has better google juice than me.