[Wuli]

Panasonic makes the little screens for watching movies on the seat back of the seat in front of you on a plane.

Without any announcement, a camera - facing you - was added to the screens.

Upon hearing an uproar from consumers, an airline has been putting little slips of tape over the cameras, saying the cameras had never been used and they had no plans to use them.

And I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Panasonic makes the little screens for watching movies on the seat back of the seat in front of you on a plane. Without any announcement, a camera - facing you - was added to the screens.

They want to capture your facial expressions in reaction to what you are seeing and feed it through an AI analytics program to figure out how to better market things to you. Advertising gets creepy.

[fuzzylogic]

...but so what. Do I have some expectation of privacy on an airplane? No. Might I want to do a video call sometime in the future. Yes.