Current Events > Taylor Swift threatens legal action against student who tracks her jet

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Pikachuchupika
02/06/24 11:21:21 AM
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/06/taylor-swift-jet-tracking-legal-threat/

Jack Sweeney, a junior at the University of Central Florida, has for years run accounts that log the takeoffs and landings of planes and helicopters owned by hundreds of billionaires, politicians, Russian oligarchs and other public figures, along with estimates of their planet-warming emissions. The accounts use publicly available data from the Federal Aviation Administration and volunteer hobbyists who can track the aircraft via the signals they broadcast.

Sweeneys accounts fueled a free-speech debate in late 2022 when X, formerly Twitter, banned Sweeney for sharing what the platforms owner, Elon Musk, said were his assassination coordinates. The accounts dont say who travels on the aircraft or where they go once the planes land.

In December, Swifts attorney at the Washington law firm Venable wrote Sweeney a cease-and-desist letter saying Swift would have no choice but to pursue any and all legal remedies if he did not stop his stalking and harassing behavior.

Private-jet flights are routinely criticized for their disproportionately high impact on climate change, and Sweeneys accounts have often been used to name and shame their most famous passengers. In 2022, the accounts were cited in an analysis that estimated Swift was the biggest celebrity [carbon dioxide] polluter of the year.


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whitelytning
02/06/24 11:25:06 AM
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Why do people care about this?

Do they really expect her or Elon or people with that kind of wealth to be crammed into the same shitty flight as everyone else? Just jealousy.

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SydnieStarlight
02/06/24 11:27:08 AM
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whitelytning posted...
Why do people care about this?
Did you just ask why people care about the ultra wealthy using their ultra wealth to hasten the death of the planet for the sake of personal convenience?

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whitelytning
02/06/24 11:27:16 AM
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ok. Why do you care about this?

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Zikten
02/06/24 11:28:50 AM
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I like her but this is a bad look on her part. She needs to let this go.
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Were_Wyrm
02/06/24 11:29:42 AM
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She just needs to shake it off

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Enclave
02/06/24 11:32:14 AM
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It's publicly available information, get fucked Swift.

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DipDipDiver
02/06/24 11:33:05 AM
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The accounts use publicly available data
Oh so she doesn't have a case then

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--Zero-
02/06/24 11:34:28 AM
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Fair. All this guy is doing is trolling these people to get attention and a laugh when they react. No one has killed anyone yet, but that doesnt mean it couldnt happen because of it eventually.

Anyone arguing its public data like its some easy task to put that together and keep track of is not thinking lol.

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pinky0926
02/06/24 11:35:18 AM
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whitelytning posted...
ok. Why do you care about this?

Well I'm sitting here reusing shitty clothes and buying second hand clothes and going paperless and choosing to carpool at work and a dozen other small things in my small way to try and make a small dent in the CO2 emission problem

And her superjet is emitting 8 thousand tonnes of the stuff every year

All so that she doesnt have to run shoulders with plebs

Yeah it bothers me

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Enclave
02/06/24 11:35:25 AM
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--Zero- posted...
Fair. All this guy is doing is trolling these people to get attention and a laugh when they react. No one has killed anyone yet, but that doesnt mean it couldnt happen because of it eventually.

It's literally publicly available information.

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MarcoRubio
02/06/24 11:35:46 AM
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Sounds like he's got Bad Blood

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Chicken
02/06/24 11:36:05 AM
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At this point the boot is in so deep he can only lick their shins

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Dakimakura
02/06/24 11:36:45 AM
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She should fly spirit like the rest of us

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PeteyParker
02/06/24 11:38:09 AM
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The Blue Checkmark crowd are in quite the conundrum with this one.

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DuneMan
02/06/24 11:38:35 AM
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Reminds me of the guy who made an interactive searchable map using publicly available data for Trump donors, so you could see where people donated money. That caused some people to panic. This seems quite tame by comparison.

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SSJKirby
02/06/24 11:39:55 AM
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She should buy twitter and ban the guy

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tripleh213
02/06/24 11:40:12 AM
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whitelytning posted...
Why do people care about this?

Do they really expect her or Elon or people with that kind of wealth to be crammed into the same shitty flight as everyone else? Just jealousy.
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ai123
02/06/24 11:40:52 AM
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Publicly available information.

She has no legitimate reason for complaint, it's just 'stop making me look bad for doing bad stuff'.

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megamanfreakXD
02/06/24 11:43:22 AM
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Good for him. Being a celebrity does not make you immune to ridicule.

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Master_Kazuya
02/06/24 11:45:15 AM
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So it's not only public info, but this guy tracks multiple people?

Idk Swiftie legally can do anything, but she has powerful lawyers

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CADE_FOSTER
02/06/24 11:46:41 AM
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The 1% has all the money eat the rich or shut the fuck up about it
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pauIie
02/06/24 11:47:09 AM
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on one hand i get not wanting to be stalked/tracked but on the other hand i don't have much sympathy considering why she's being stalked/tracked.

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pinky0926
02/06/24 12:30:17 PM
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Master_Kazuya posted...
So it's not only public info, but this guy tracks multiple people?

Idk Swiftie legally can do anything, but she has powerful lawyers

Often the purpose of a legal action isnt to win but to drown the opponent in so much legal fees that they give in.

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ExtremeLuchador
02/06/24 12:32:47 PM
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DuneMan posted...
Reminds me of the guy who made an interactive searchable map using publicly available data for Trump donors, so you could see where people donated money. That caused some people to panic. This seems quite tame by comparison.
City-data has done that for decades.

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Northlane
02/06/24 12:37:20 PM
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Swift can fuck right off

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VirtuousWrath
02/06/24 12:41:19 PM
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pinky0926 posted...
Often the purpose of a legal action isnt to win but to drown the opponent in so much legal fees that they give in.
Oof. Bad optics for Swift

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theAteam
02/06/24 12:45:02 PM
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pinky0926 posted...
Often the purpose of a legal action isnt to win but to drown the opponent in so much legal fees that they give in.

I don't see how a judge wouldn't immediately throw away this case.

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s0nicfan
02/06/24 12:45:18 PM
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Casual reminder that she defended her jet's yearly CO2 output with "I loan my jet to my friends so it's not really all MY emissions."

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Sry4PartyRockin
02/06/24 12:45:48 PM
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Yeah she fucked up here

She forced herself to play defense on something that is objectively indefensible
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Smashingpmkns
02/06/24 12:52:56 PM
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Doesn't her jet fly empty a lot of the time

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Aitz
02/06/24 12:55:34 PM
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Thats a bad look for her.

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CruelBuffalo
02/06/24 12:56:43 PM
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She is now causing bigger attention to it lol
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EnterTheTekken
02/06/24 2:55:08 PM
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This is nothing more than an intimidation move to scare him into stopping. But there's no merit for this legally.

If I were him, I would welcome the court challenge. I want to hear your arguments all the while pumping up my own clout.

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MrKapowski
02/06/24 2:59:16 PM
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This guy should focus on all the billionaires that spend alot of time telling us peasants how to live our lives to save the planet.

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trivialbeing
02/06/24 3:00:28 PM
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whitelytning posted...
ok. Why do you care about this?
why care about Elon or Bezos?
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Were_Wyrm
02/06/24 3:00:44 PM
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He should double down and create an account that publishes all of the public legal fillings of the cases against his tracking accounts.

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haloiscoolisbak
02/06/24 3:10:01 PM
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Swift always struck me as someone who could easily slip up eventually and get cancelled

She's a simple country girl at heart who probably didn't have a strong opinion on the world or politics other than Jesus loves me until she was an adult

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Irony
02/06/24 3:11:38 PM
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Damn I thought she was a good guy

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Ratchetrockon
02/06/24 3:18:38 PM
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Damn how dare he track her flights

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WingsOfGood
02/06/24 3:18:48 PM
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Elaylor Mift
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EmbraceOfDeath
02/06/24 3:22:59 PM
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He can't track her flights if she stops flying private.

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garan
02/06/24 3:30:41 PM
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Northlane posted...
Swift can fuck right off


This. Always amusing to see people who criticize the 1%, but then raise a hissy fit when their favorite billionaire does shitty things.
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mario2000
02/06/24 3:34:34 PM
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Yeah it's publicly available information so I don't think there's much legally they can do unless they can somehow prove that the kid's planning to do something malicious with it.

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GuerrillaSoldier
02/06/24 3:50:33 PM
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what if she makes it so it's no longer publicly available


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voldothegr8
02/06/24 3:55:27 PM
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Enclave posted...
It's publicly available information, get fucked Swift.
Also get fucked Musk

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DrizztLink
02/06/24 3:56:24 PM
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Deal with it or fly commercial.

/shrug

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teep_
02/06/24 3:57:20 PM
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GuerrillaSoldier posted...
what if she makes it so it's no longer publicly available
I don't think she can do that, since she'd have to file flight plans etc

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