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My chief concern with this situation is that when these rules are applied you're essentially moving li-ion batteries into the hold of the aircraft. Laptops that are accidentally left on could overheat in suitcases, tablets could get impact damage during turbulence etc. Surely this is a huge fire risk?

I recently flew and was asked if I had spare batteries or e-cig devices in the bags I wanted to check in since they aren't allowed in checked luggage - presumably for this reason. In fact, I just did some searching and found this article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-07/laptop-ba...

Are there fire suppression systems in modern airliners? Would they be able to stop a laptop battery that's combusting?

The power corporations are accumulating with information on intimate customer behavior and the glacial response of society to this is a daily refrain on HN. Has anyone seen a comprehensive, or at least collected, list of canonical examples of strong arguments for:

* Raising awareness amongst non-technical folks that such incredible stocking up of PII can raise complicated ethical risks?

* Giving legislative representatives practical and defensible reasons to not just go with the flow and actually have a chance to offer smart legislative options without being shot down?

This particular example is alarming - I can picture plenty of corporations that wouldn't mind the idea of "customer service" representatives casually raising the prospect of releasing customer PII in order to "show their side of the story" as leverage in situations where a customer is threatening to go to an Ombudsman or other public forum.