Snoops on a Plane: Looking for Privacy in all the Wrong (Public) Places (Authored by Faruki Summer Associate Tammy H. Winkler)

The Dark Side of Social Media Two strangers sitting next to each other on a transcontinental flight strike up a conversation and end up falling in love.  This is the stuff of fairy tales, right?  Not according to one passenger on a flight from New York to Dallas earlier this summer.  What started out with a stranger asking for a favor to switch seats ended up becoming a viral social media saga of a “whirlwind romance,” scandalously branded as #PlaneBae.  For those unfamiliar with this story, the #PlaneBae saga consisted of a series of Instagram stories and tweets posted by an Alaska Airlines Passenger, who recorded what she portrayed to be a budding romance unfolding in the row in front of her.  Over the course of the six-hour flight, the passenger posted to Instagram® and Twitter® a live minute-to-minute narration of the two seatmates’ interactions.  By the end of the flight, the passenger had managed to:  1) take…

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