United covers the cameras of its in-flight entertainment systems

This is not because airlines do not want pbadengers to chat on video with their phones when they are in the air that we've never thought of selling it as that service. As a result, some aircraft have entertainment systems on the back with camera. integrated. However, even if they are not connected to a service, privacy-minded airmen have expressed enough concern – the idea that a person can look, or allow face recognition is gloomy – that United Airlines used cover cameras that exist in some of its systems.

In a statement to Buzzfeed NewsA spokesman for United said: "None of these cameras were activated and we did not plan to use them in the future, but we took the extra step to cover them. standard functionality that system manufacturers include for future purposes such as videoconferencing. "

However, United is not part of the airlines equipped with this equipment, as the report indicates, much of the turmoil around these cameras occurred after leaflets spotted the devices in the systems flights from American Airlines and Singapore Airlines their planes).