The airline said that they were unused and there was no plan to use them.
Just because the aircrafts do not want video chatting from the phone, while they are in the air does not mean that it was never thought of to be sold as a service, and as a result, some aircrafts have a seat-back with a camera Entertainment systems are embedded. However, even if they are not plugged into a service, those who are conscious about privacy have raised enough concern - the idea that a person can see, or that the identity of the face can be enabled, it is cumbersome - that United Airlines has used stickers to cover the cameras present in some of its systems.
In a statement by BuzzFeed News, a joint spokesman said, "None of these cameras was ever active and we had no plans to use them in the future, but we took extra steps to cover the cameras. The camera is a standard feature that is for manufacturers. In future, the system involved for potential purposes such as video conferencing. "
However, United is not the only airline in which the hardware is installed, as the report says, there was a lot of turmoil in these cameras when the flyer saw the devices in the system on American Airlines and Singapore Airlines flights ( Both said that cameras are disabled their aircraft).
Just found this interesting sensor looking at me from the seat back on board of Singapore Airlines. Any expert opinion of whether this a camera? Perhaps @SingaporeAir could clarify how it is used? pic.twitter.com/vy0usqruZG— Vitaly Kamluk (@vkamluk) February 17, 2019
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