British Airways Will Google Passengers 'To Put A Face To The Name'
The airline says its new “Know Me” program involves a thorough Googling of future fliers, so that check-in staff can “put a face to the name before the customer sets foot in the airport,” The Telegraph reports.
Results of the searches will be forwarded to front-line staff equipped with iPads, making for more personal (or creepy) interactions with check-in staff or cabin crew. Some privacy advocates are up in arms about the pre-check-in data mining, but at least one industry-watching site points out that Google searches are likely less invasive that airport security procedures these days.
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That one industry-watching site has a good point.
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What does is say about me that I’m focused more on the inappropriate use of “that” than the pseudo-Orwellian face...
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samsanator reblogged this from huffingtonpost and added:
Yea, it’s less creepy than airport security, but it’s still creepy.
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