Your airline ESPIONE on you? A passenger discovers an integrated camera on his television screen Singapore Airlines

Could airlines use secret cameras hidden in television screens to spy on their customers at 38,000 feet?

A pbadenger from Singapore Airlines learned upon waking that his camera was equipped with a camera on his television screen during a recent flight.

While Singapore said the camera was turned off, some have concluded that other airlines would have the same system but with the cameras on. Or that cameras operating on the screen could be used to spy on pbadengers during future flights.

Singapore Airlines pbadenger, Vitaly Kamluk, photographed the small camera that he discovered on his flight entertainment screen aboard a 787 Dreamliner

Mr. Kamluk tweeted Singapore Airlines to ask if the camera was on.

The concern was raised earlier this week when the traveler Vitaly Kamluk He boarded a Singapore Airlines Boeing 787 and noticed a tiny camera at the bottom of his flight entertainment screen at the back. We did not know where he was flying from.

Mr. Kamluk took a picture of the screen, surrounding the small camera, and posted it on Twitter to ask why she was there.

He tweeted, "I just found this interesting sensor looking at me from the seat aboard Singapore Airlines.

& # 39; Any expert opinion of whether this is a camera? Maybe @SingaporeAir could clarify how it is used?

Almost immediately, Singapore Airlines responded to Mr. Kamluk to confirm that it was a camera, but added that it was not turned on and that it was a camera. it was not intended to use them as cameras.

The carrier tweeted, "We would like to share the fact that some of our most recent in-flight entertainment systems provided by OEMs have a camera built into the hardware.

In a series of tweets, Singapore Airlines confirmed the presence of cameras on the in-flight entertainment screens, but did not plan to turn them on.

"These cameras have been disabled on our planes and there is no plan to develop features using these cameras."

Another on social media then asked the airline why the screens were equipped with a camera if it did not intend to use them.

The carrier responded, "The cameras of our new IFE (In-Flight Entertainment) systems were provided by the original equipment manufacturers. We do not intend to activate or develop features using cameras. & # 39;

The question can be asked: If manufacturers equipped with cameras manufacture IFE systems, could different airlines use them, if not now but in the future?

Claire Reilly, editor of the CNET web site, wrote in a blog post: "You can bet that the" original equipment manufacturers "who installed these cameras were not trying to meet the growing demand for videos of tired airplane pbadenger seats.

"We are not a playful entertainment in this dark and dystopian future: we are an audience to which we must be marketed, data to extract and a captive set of eyeballs to stress.

"The cameras are in our billboards, in our devices and every second corner, follow our movements and slowly build an image of our lives in real time minute by minute. Add to that planes and you have a terrifying new way to calculate your social credit score.