Airplane Seat Cameras Could Be Your New Spy in the Sky
February 20th, 2019Don’t worry, the cameras are disabled.
*chortle*
In other news: Google says the built-in microphone it never told Nest users about was ‘never supposed to be a secret’
Via: Cnet:
Twitter user Vitaly Kamluk shared a photo of what looked like a camera installed directly beneath the inflight entertainment screen on a Singapore Airlines aircraft.
Singapore Airlines replied that it was indeed a camera, embedded into the seat back by the original equipment manufacturers of the plane, but said the cameras had been disabled on its aircraft and “there are no plans to develop any features” using them.
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And I think we can all agree, if a camera is built into a device, it will always remain unused, always remain secure, and will never be used to capture footage.
