Security of Recorded Information

Security of recorded information is a highly sensitive issue within the global airline pilot community. This paper emphasizes that adequate security of recorded information is imperative if air safety investigators and other industry professionals are to retain access to recorded data, and other industry professionals are to retain access to recorded data. Although the Air Line Pilots Association is known primarily as a force to improve wages and working conditions for pilots, many familiar with transportation issues are aware of the contributions of ALPA's safety professionals. Our members are vocal with their safety concerns. What our pilots are telling us - and there are about 52,000 of them in the United States and Canada - is that data recordings, and how they are used or abused, continue to be of paramount importance. This paper will discuss issues such as privacy, fairness, trust, legislation, and the need for pilot participation in the analysis of recorded data. For these purposes, recorded information includes not just Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) and Cockpit Video View Recorder (CVVR) information, but also Digital Flight Data Recorder (DFDR) information, air safety reports that are electronically transmitted, as well as various forms of data-linked information, including ACARS. In this paper, the security of such information means protection against unauthorized or inappropriate use.

Language

  • English

Media Info

  • Media Type: Web
  • Pagination: pp 146-151
  • Monograph Title: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Transportation Recorders. Transportation Recording: 2000 and Beyond, May 3-5, 1999, Arlington, Virginia

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 01088100
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: Jan 30 2008 12:31PM