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Cameras, microphones and other sensors are showing up everywhere. And this is just the beginning. A passenger on a Singapore Airlines flight this week noticed a small, circular indentation below the image playing on the seatback in-flight entertainment system in front of him. Could that be, he wondered, a camera The passenger did the only logical thing: He tweeted out a photo and asked the Twitterverse for opinions, setting off a chorus of complainers on Twitter.Singapore Airline
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stanley taza o capture pictures or video. It then told media outlets in a statement that the embedded cameras have been intended by the manufacturers for future developments. These cameras are permanently disabled on our aircraft and cannot be activated
stanley cup on board. We have no plans to enable or develop any features using the cameras. The in-flight entertainment systems are reportedly made by Panasonic Avionics, which has revealed plans in the past to use biometric passenger identification for clearing customs before you even get off the plane.History tells us that technology deployed for convenience is often redeployed for security. Clearly AI will be capable of monitoring video from hundreds of airliner seats to find passengers who seem nervous, drunk or dangerous. Why wouldnrsquo;t airlines use the cameras for safety and security if they could Think of the children!Security, but what about privacy Google is under f Vmgj Stringer shakes up Sony management, takes president position
Congress eyes limiting use of SSNs as identifiers The possibility that U.S. lawmakers might restrict the widespread use of Social Security numbers as customer identifiers because of data-privacy issues is prompting big concerns within the financial services industry. Randy Lively Jr., CEO of the American Financial Services Association in Washington, said last week that such a move could deprive banks, insurance firms, credit bureaus and other businesses of a reliable identity verification method while doing little to bolster consumer privacy. The Soci
polene espana al Security number is the only unique identifier in our country that enables a [company] to be sure that t
polene he consumer they are doing business with is the correct John Smith, Lively said. Any attempt to limit the use of the numbers in commercial transactions could disrupt the nationrsquo economy, he argued. Concerns about the misuse of Social Security numbers and their link to identity theft are valid, Lively acknowledged. But he said that lawmakers need to understand the consequences of barring their use for commercial purposes. What would be put in place if that number were to go away And wouldnrsquo;t that identifier be susceptible to the same kind of fraud he asked. Lively was one of several financial industry representatives
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