Man live blogs strangers’ breakup

A web developer overheard a raucous break up between two young people at a Burger King and decided to post the exchange in real time on Twitter. Andy Boyle posted videos and photos of the young couple to Twitter while he described their public fight, to his 3,000 or so followers. This feat of eavesdropping prompted the blog Gawker to opine, "It is not safe to break up in Burger King anymore."

But Forbes technology reporter Kashmir Hill writes that the incident actually brings up important privacy issues in an age where people can broadcast their every observation. "Do we really want social media to turn us into a nation of smartphone-armed tabloid reporters?" she writes.

As facial recognition technology gets better and better, including a photo of a stranger in your description of him will become tantamount to naming him, which Hill says is an invasion of privacy, in addition to just being rude.

You can see Boyle's story of the break up here.

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