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I'm pretty sure I give precise date of birth already every time I fly.
by steerablesafe 6y ago
I'm pretty sure I give precise date of birth already every time I fly.
- rantwasp 6y agoMiss. This is not how we do things around here /s
- shadowgovt 6y agoIt's fascinating that this issue occurred; I'd be shocked if the gestalt of data doesn't have enough information to know every passenger's age. Pure speculation on my part, but it may be a data-hiding issue - if they realized late in design that the passenger manifest system had to feed into the weight estimator, but the passenger manifest (for privacy reasons, or simple "Don't access more data than you need" coding best-practices reasons) only had access to passenger names, surnames, prefixes, and IDs. It shouldn't have happened (clearly, that's the point an engineer should be pulling the red lever on schedule and doing the work to get the data that's needed to the service that needs it, including clearing legal hurdles for privacy, if necessary), but I can easily imagine it happening if quality took a back-seat to deadlines.