'Kiss camera' saga triggers debate on privacy in public

NEW YORK — When the "Kiss-Cam" at a Coldplay concert focused on a couple who tried (but failed) to duck out of the spotlight, the internet immediately got to work.

In hours, the clip was just about everywhere. Endless memes, parody videos and photos of the pair's shocked faces filled social media feeds. Online sleuths rushed to identify who was on camera. Artificial intelligence and software company Astronomer eventually confirmed that its CEO and chief people officer were in fact the couple in the video — and announced the CEO's resignation over the weekend.

The incident's fallout has, of course, generated conversations about business ethics, corporate accountability and the repercussions that conflicts of interest within leadership can cause. But there are also broader implications at play in the increasingly online world — about the state of potentially being visible everywhere you go or tracked through "social media surveillance".Experts say it's more and more common for moments that may have been intended to be private, or at least reserved to a single physical venue, to make their way online and even go global today.