From Lisa Mayo
I found the article on “smart” airline seats very troubling (14 June, p 14). Paul Marks ends this frightening piece with the statement, “first-class passengers will enjoy the benefits first”.
I don’t see the benefit of airlines taking away every ounce of our privacy. I fly frequently, but the latest news I’m hearing is not making me feel safer – only more violated. I can have my credit background checked at the counter, I can be searched at the security checkpoint, I can have a camera over my seat monitoring my every move during the entire flight, and now I can have body sensors reading my behaviour.
If this nonsense goes much further, I won’t be flying at all – and it won’t have anything to do with terrorists. It will have to do with the airline industry embracing every conceivable technology that comes down the pipe, without any regard for common sense and personal dignity.
Germantown, Maryland, US
