Re:American Airlines Has Cameras in Their Screens Too
by bobthepanda on Thursday February 21, 2019 @03:00PM
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An airplane isn't really public space like the street, since you can't just waltz into an airplane free of charge, and airplanes are not generally owned directly by the public. They are managed places open to the public for a price, and that payment comes with certain expectations (e.g., there wasn't a camera present 20 years ago, why should it be present now?)
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Re:American Airlines Has Cameras in Their Screens Too
by mnm1 on Thursday February 21, 2019 @03:09PM
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Nothing about paying for a service disallows the airline company from putting cameras in the public space they operate for a profit unless it's specified in the contract that they are not allowed to do so. I guarantee you they did not put restrictions like that on themselves in the contract with the customer. Your argument that cameras did not exist in these spaces 20 years ago is completely irrelevant to what the airline can do now. If you don't like it, get the laws changed. By this reasoning, the airport itself could not put up security cameras beyond the security checkpoints where only ticketed passengers are allowed. That's absurd.
Re:American Airlines Has Cameras in Their Screens Too
by bobthepanda on Thursday February 21, 2019 @03:11PM
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Nothing disallows it. But just because it's perfectly legal doesn't mean that consumers don't have the right to question it and then agitate against it, which is what is happening in the article. The legal code is not perfect.