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Coldplaygate & our fear of being watched

Coldplaygate & our fear of being watched

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Whether it's the Coldplay kiss cam or screenshots of dating
profiles, it feels like any one of our private lives could
inadvertently go public any minute now.

A Coldplay concert kiss cam video went viral when one couple
featured jumped away from each other and hid their faces. The
internet quickly identified the concertgoers, and it turned the
couple's life upside-down. It makes you think, though... could this
happen to me, too?

Brittany talks with Kate Wagner, architecture critic at The Nation,
to discuss what this viral moment says about our eroding privacy in
both public and private life, and how we've internalized casual
surveillance. Do we all carry Coldyplay kiss cams in the form of
our phones?

Read Kate's article in Lux Magazine about why internet surveillance
is killing eroticism here.

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