Florida flights now triple-plus safe

According to "Videocams will monitor plane passengers":

Passengers who fly Southeast Airlines will be under the constant eye of digital video cameras providing a live feed and recordings of their faces and activities for security purposes.

Wired News said the Florida-based charter airline plans to store the video for up to 10 years and could use face-recognition software to match faces to names and personal records.

"One of the strong capabilities of the system is for the corporate office to be able to monitor what is going on at all times," said Scott Bacon, Southeast's vice president of planning, according to Wired. "From a security standpoint, this provides a great advantage to assure that there is a safe environment at all times."

Here's the press release:

"Conditions of the [Letter of Intent] call for the installation of the Sky Way Aircraft System on the entire fleet of Southeast Airlines aircraft. The Sky Way Aircraft System shall include high-speed wireless Internet, advanced In Flight Entertainment (IFE), Flight Management Avionics Data Links (FMADL), in-flight security and archiving of monitored information, air filtration system monitoring and, upon approval, cellular micro-cells to facilitate passengers personal cell phone use."

To make me feel triple-plus safe, I hope Southeast not only records the video, but the WiFi and cellular traffic as well. Now that's what I call triple-plus safe!

Of course, if you want to boycott Southeast, be my guest.

Privacy · Sun, 07/20/2003 - 20:37 · · Importance: 1