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submitted 5 months ago by perishthethought@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

The carrier on Friday said it launched a media platform to serve travelers personalized advertisements on seat-back screens and in its app, among other platforms, as it seeks to leverage customer data.

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[-] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 40 points 5 months ago

This article is short on details but what I really want to know is WHERE is that data coming from and how the fuck does United have access to it?! Also, a follow-up question would be how does one ensure they don't get access to that data? Is that even possible anymore?

[-] inconel@lemmy.ca 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I think they can retain customers' past flight records and maybe list of media played in flights. That said it's almost guaranteed some ad marketing corpo is behind, and EULA is always vague enough to allow sharing external party...

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