Lord Spandex Masher
17th Nov 2010, 12:50
My brother has just informed me that his company has recently removed details of crew from AIMS under the pretext of data protection, privacy and security.
Effectively this means you can no longer see who you're working with, although training duties have the names disclosed on rosters. Not such a big deal so far. However, those details are still available to just about everybody else in the company: Crewing, Ops, Flight Safety bods, management etc..
There is no personal information available to crew on AIMS, just a list of the crew on particular flights. This is occasionally useful for arranging lifts, car sharing, sometimes if you're running a bit late it's easy to look up who you're flying with to arrange the important stuff etc..
There is suspicion that this is an attempt to sidestep the scheduling agreement with regard to disruption payments and the like, however that would work. Apparently Balpa are on the case.
Questions are:
1. Have the company been in breach of the DPA since it's inception and is there now scope for, shall we say, compensation or even just an apology?
2. As there is no personal information available are they justified in removing this information, as it is often quite useful for doing the job effectively?
3. Can crew elect to have all of their personal data removed from the company systems? (This is a bit daft because they wouldn't get paid but the question still stands!)
Any other comments or experience with this kind of thing?
Effectively this means you can no longer see who you're working with, although training duties have the names disclosed on rosters. Not such a big deal so far. However, those details are still available to just about everybody else in the company: Crewing, Ops, Flight Safety bods, management etc..
There is no personal information available to crew on AIMS, just a list of the crew on particular flights. This is occasionally useful for arranging lifts, car sharing, sometimes if you're running a bit late it's easy to look up who you're flying with to arrange the important stuff etc..
There is suspicion that this is an attempt to sidestep the scheduling agreement with regard to disruption payments and the like, however that would work. Apparently Balpa are on the case.
Questions are:
1. Have the company been in breach of the DPA since it's inception and is there now scope for, shall we say, compensation or even just an apology?
2. As there is no personal information available are they justified in removing this information, as it is often quite useful for doing the job effectively?
3. Can crew elect to have all of their personal data removed from the company systems? (This is a bit daft because they wouldn't get paid but the question still stands!)
Any other comments or experience with this kind of thing?