When a production crew wants to use footage of you in a show they have to get you to sign a release. There probably needs to be some form of this for online exposure as well. What form that would take is a difficult question.
She was made famous by the attention-seeking couple, her "plane boyfriend" and the exploitive media.
It's amazing how such a nonstory was milked by everyone for publicity and profit. And the theatlantic is still going at it.
If the poor woman wants privacy, how about theatlantic stop writig about the "Plane-Bae Woman"? How about focus on the couple who "set her up" to gain media following? How about focus on the "plane boyfriend" who knew about the couple filming them and used that for publicity by appearing all over TV and hinting that the unsuspecting woman had sex with him in the plane bathroom ( probably because the producer told him they needed juicy story from him ).
Or most importantly, how about the atlantic shine a light on itself and the media which turn a non-story into a major story because they need to exploit everything and everyone for money?
The story should be on everyone but the woman and yet the title is "Plane-Bae Woman".
And the atlantic is lying when they say "unidentified" woman when the "boyfriend" identified her and the media spent an entire week exploiting this woman and this story.
Instead of "Unidentified Plane-Bae Woman...", how about "Everything Wrong with the Media and Attention Seeking People"? Put the focus on the problem, not the victim.
The controls and policies on corporate communication channels are an executive decision, even if not every individual action implementing them is not.
That honestly oversimplifies the issue. There's a narrative out there, that is clearly affecting how random people are interacting with her, not to mention her perception of herself.
Sometimes you have to control the narrative with the other perspective after the problem happens to mitigate the damage.
Stuff like this is never simple, it affects real people. Real people have to be talked about after real people are talked about unfairly. Not everything can be generalized, abstracted, and distilled into a philosophy.
She took a ton of photos of these interactions, captioned them with her speculations, and posted them to Twitter. This thread went viral.
It’s all pretty creepy and invasive.