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QANTAS Wants To Monitor Frequent Flyers' Home Internet

Posted by timothy on from the watching-you-from-below-and-above dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Australian Airline QANTAS wants to monitor recording frequent flyers' home internet searching and surfing. QANTAS will pass the data to US marketing partner FreeCause who are not subject to Australian privacy laws. Meanwhile the Australian Attorney-General's Department has been secretly drafting new data retention laws to log Australians' web surfing. The government claims it needs these to fight crime, yet is ignoring corruption by its own public service."

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  1. Drooling Insanity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The madness must stop.

  2. I wouldn't count on the NRA by L.+J.+Beauregard · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When tyranny comes to America, the NRA members will not be fighting the government. They will be at the rallies, waving flags and chanting slogans between the Sousa marches.

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    Ooh, moderator points! Five more idjits go to Minus One Hell!
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  3. Re:It won't by dbIII · · Score: 4, Insightful

    we'd be like Canada or Australia.

    You missed the bit where this imported prick running QANTAS is sending the data to the US to get around the stricter privacy laws in Australia.

  4. This is NOT NEW. by upuv · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Qantas has had a form of spyware for years. Over 7 years ago I saw it's first version. It was a horrible crash prone mess. It was a flight search bar with other value add addons. And yes it reported to the mother ship.

    A lot of airlines did the same. So did package delivery companies.

    I work rather closely with large companies that are deploying or have deployed improved analytics tools to track your every click. Big brother exists. An issue is it's not just one big brother.

    Face book for example. Almost every single app is mining your account for information. Very use any of the facebook apps if you must use facebook. Only ever give the minimal amount of information. Remember you are the product.

    If you are dumb enough to ever install a "toolbar" then you get what you asked for. There is no such thing as a free value addon. They will all cost you dearly.