Why the airplane romance that went viral should worry everyone

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/07/10/why-the-airplane-romance-that-went-viral-should-worry-everyone/

by mgiannopoulos • 8 years ago

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sjdbwixb• 8 years ago

I don't see how anyone's privacy was invaded here.

endorphone• 8 years ago

You have an extraordinarily limited notion of what privacy is.

paulcole• 8 years ago

Maybe a more modern notion? For better or worse society’s definition of privacy is definitely changing.

musage2• 8 years ago

Maybe that would make it okay to do it to you, but even then it doesn't justify it being done to anyone but you.

jaclaz• 8 years ago

See if these other articles help you in seeing where the problem might be:

http://www.businessinsider.com/planebae-saga-woman-privacy-a...

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/07/unide...

Discussion on the latter:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17534985

masonic• 8 years ago

  Alaska Airlines called what Blair did a "good deed" and offered her a free flight. T-Mobile offered Blair free Wi-Fi.

... and thus ends my patronage of both of these corporations.

T-mobile already pissed me off this week by dumping that 1700 megabyte Android 9 update on all of my Galaxy S7 over mobile data in the middle of the night without warning despite my account being set to disallow that, and reverting all security updates back to April in the process.

Sir_Substance2• 8 years ago

Fortunately, the law isn't based on your narcissistic point of view.

"Overzealous surveillance, even if it occurs in public, may give rise to intrusion claims or, in some cases, harassment or stalking suits." Source: https://www.rcfp.org/browse-media-law-resources/digital-jour...

projektir• 8 years ago

Wow, this is awful. :/ Of course, something like this is likely already rampant in less friendly environments (i.e., schools).

jknz• 8 years ago

If the airline was identified by the tweets, they should have stepped in, call the pilots/flight attendants to stop this madness.

It seems it would be easy for the victims to sue either the airline or the two perpetrators. Suing the airline might be safer to prevent doxxing by the 1M followers who somehow find this entertaining.

accnumnplus1• 8 years ago

The fact that it went viral is unfortunate. The whole thing was a non-story (two people meet, wow) with big pink headlines and two giddy voyeurs. The only thing worth noting was the marketing aspect.

r00fus• 8 years ago

It didn't "go viral " it was shoved onto the scene by a very nosy self-promoter who piggybacked on the popularity. I'd say it's the same as illegally profiting off other people's experiences without their consent.

Simulacra• 8 years ago

My greatest fear is becoming a meme or going viral for the wrong reasons. I feel terrible for this woman. She did not ask for her privacy to be invaded, or her personal life to go viral. In the future it would be best to avoid barging into peoples lives, printing their personal conversations and life for all to see, critique, and humiliate. That's what journalists are for.

alecco• 8 years ago

My greatest fear is becoming a meme or going viral for the wrong reasons

Generation Z in a nutshell.

dwaltrip• 8 years ago

Is such uninvited photography legal? A stranger takes your photograph without your permission or knowledge for multiple hours... sounds a lot like stalking.

Why the airplane romance that went viral should worry everyone

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