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United Airlines passengers to see targeted ads on seat-back screens (www.cbsnews.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Wilshire@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] locuester@lemmy.zip 26 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I requested opt out and they requested my ID. lol! So they’re demanding more info to opt out of info collection.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

How are they going to identify who is opting out without being able to match it to the person in the seat..?

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

Your united data is going to be tied to an email. They could just use that. It's reasonable to see this as further invasiveness, similar to Meta™ account recovery.

[–] locuester@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago

Email validation.

[–] Please_Do_Not@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Say you're from California on the form and it'll change what you have to enter. You don't have to put in an address or verify CA residency.

[–] locuester@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That’s what I did. It says they’ll be following up to get ID.

[–] Please_Do_Not@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Weird, I didn't see that. fingers crossed it's a bluff lol