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British Airways uses Google image search to spot frequent fliers

Some of these want to be recognised. They'll put out good pictures just to ensure they are. I have a big ego, but not big enough to assume that SAS or Aer Lingus will put any effort into working out who I am when I board.

As for KLM keeping passengers watered that express on public twitter that they're thirsty, good on them. How many times have we felt ignored or misunderstood by some company or shop? Here are a few that make an effort. Only the odd privacy nut would be upset by this, I think.

Google Photo Search is being used by Journalists to bypass Legal Requirements to Hide the Identity of people who other journalists have said they would protect or are awaiting Court Proceedings for crimes that they are accursed of.

Even a Heavily Pixilated Picture can be dropped into Google Photo Search and come up with most peoples Name and whatever other details that have appeared online. If those same people are members of sites like FB and have posted photos of themselves for their fiends they have just made their Identity publicly available. Last week here a Whistle Blower Informant had their Photo printed in a Newspaper heavily Pixilated and it took all of 3 seconds to identify them through a Photo Search Engine no where near as powerful as what Google is offering.

So obviously Children and Whistle Blowers need to understand that now there is No Such Thing as Privacy. BA's action is so trivial in comparison but at the same time also a perfect example of why it should be stopped. Hack the CCTV Systems in any public place and you can get to know who almost everyone is and where they live.

Col

This is ~such~ a Seinfeld episode: the ~very latest coo-coo technology recognizes Kramer as the Prince of Wales...

Or the Queen.

I can't even get a thank you most of the time .

Jp

Just look at their passports and address them accordingly.
No need to waste thousands doing that.

Wouldn't it be a bit more logical if BA would first get some type of approval before doing so.
Even then ask BA travellers before hand if they want this service. If the travellers say no, the people at the desk will never see any information of the travellers and all records from the time the picture was taken until the desk will be wiped. It would be as if they were a new BA client.

Some day a critical mass will wake up to the fact that 1984, Brave New World, THX 1138 and the like are not fiction, but blueprint/wish lists for the global elite.

This is more beta testing of a facet of the total command and control grid. Your ipad is another big component. In conjunction with facebook the lemmings are paying for their own stampede.

Well, this is just sick&spooky. Who needs that kind of service? I dont think that anyone should be monitored 24/7 no matter how good reason might be.