Taylor Swift threatens legal action against Florida student who tracks her jet | CNN Business

Alright you’ve been on a roll lately Swifty, but imma call you out; transponders are public information.

If you are for Musk being tracked, you should be fine with her being tracked the same way.

I'm for anyone in a private jet being tracked.

Woman who made over a billion being a public figure upset she is now a public figure.

Sorry, no privacy for private jets. I don’t care about the “danger.” She can fly commercial in business class or first class if she wants privacy.

I'm on team Florida student.

Didn't the richest person in the world try to do this exact same thing? I'm still convinced it's the reason he bought Twitter. Those flight logs are public information because they prevent mid air collisions, your not going to change that. No one is going to be putting military grade radar equipment on a Boeing 757 if they can't even stop the doors from opening mid flight.

But flight data is available - this guy just labels her N number and filters the data in a creepy way. I get that it's probably causing her danger to have stalkers waiting at the destination for her - but those stalkers always had access to this flight data.

Seems like a workaround for Taylor would be to not own a plane and charter a different one every time. (Or do something actually environmentally minded :/)

The solution is obvious.

Stop owning private jets.

Billionaires threatening, harassing, and intimidating normal people with their army of lawyers and sycophant fans is never okay.

Fuck Taylor Swift and every other rich piece of shit.

Fuck billionaires

Her lawyers must be crazy to think they can get anything done that elon couldn't. Taylor should be mad at her PR for not stopping her if she asked for this personally.

As for private jets. People with wealth, use that wealth to find an alternative. God knows you haven't found anything else to do with it.

Edit: Also, please let it be zeppelin technology.

nope. sorry taylor. if your plane's tracking information is public knowledge it's allowed. if it's good for elon it's good for you too.

Way to kill the goodwill you've been gaining Taylor

I'm thinking since the super bowl drama she's probably getting more death threats than usual, and this is a reaction to that. It's not going to work. You cant sue someone for publishing publicly available information.

If you travel in the same plane all the time, and you own that plane, people will be able to track you. Why not just get a good contract with a private jet company so you can fly anonymously? Even if she wins this case, she will still be trackable until she takes advantage of any of the options she has at her disposal.

Maybe not the best idea to pattern yourself after Musk.

Put simply, there are no "good billionaires".

It’s public information. If you have a problem then stop flying around in your fancy fucking jet.

God damn rich people. Fuck em all.

Looks like someone doesn't know how transponders work.

Understandable I guess: It's not really something most people know anything about, but you'd think someone working for her would've been like, "Yeah, no, that's not really how aviation works, they are public by design" before it got to the point where a legal threat was made.

What a friendly billionaire.

I'm expecting her to be revealed as a villain at some point. She was born with a silver spoon, there are skeletons in closets, and she knows it. Time will tell.

ADS-B data is public. There is no reasonable expectation of privacy. I grew to respect her recently, but in this matter, she is full of shit.

Sure Ms. Swift, act like Muskrat.

If you don't want people to know where your going just throw on a medical mask and buy a Greyhound ticket in cash like every other undercover federal agent

/s

Looking forward to her new, highly-relatable single, "Why you gotta track my jet?"

Link to his accounts:

https://grndcntrl.net/links/

Elon Part II

If she had simply not said anything, no one would be talking about it

She could take a train.

Stop using the jet and this won't be an issue lol

Is everyone else sick of hearing about T Swift? I don't have anything against her, just don't want to see or hear her any more.

Something something Steisand effect...

That image almost looks like she has no arms

Publicity implosion speedrun (any%)

I disagree with the use of "Florida Student" when "Florida Man" would have been a better title

lol it looks as if her hands are chopped off

it's literally delayed by 24 hours so that it's not a security risk for her. The only reason they're sharing it is to raise awareness about insane fuel consumption for example when she flies from one side of St. Louis to the other (and back), burning hundreds of gallons of jet fuel for what should have been a 30 minute drive

Power corrupts.

Nay nay TayTay. I support her, but she lost the plot on that one.

Precedent states that the only legal remedy is to buy whatever social media platform the dependent uses, ban them, and run the rest of the site into the ground.

Couldn't he dodge this by publishing the data on a delay? Say, new flight info only shows up on the website 72 hours after it happened?

Didn't she go on the record saying she doesn't own her jet and it gets leased out to other people? Ya know because pollution...

Swallowed the hook

I'm just posting sources to back up my claims while everyone else just says stuff because they want it to be true. No need for sources when you can just say stuff... it's like Republicans.

Didn’t she just have an issue with a stalker that was arrested?

Uh oh, fall from grace?

ITT: People who suddenly always hated Taylor Swift and were just waiting to hear who to point their torches and pitchforks at this round.

lmao, this teen is a legend

White feminist privilege detected.

This is actually an interesting debate because it actually puts into question at what level people should be allowed to track other people. We would not want the government to follow us around, but a private citizen knowing where we are is kind of like stalking and could endanger them.