Taylor Swift suing college kid tracking celebrity jets
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Anonymous
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How can he be sued for tracking flights? isn't it data available to all, and just pure conjecture about who is actually in which jet?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/06/taylor-swift-jet-tracking-legal-threat/ |
Anonymous
| Yikes! That’s not a good look. |
Anonymous
| That's shabby of her. It's publicly available data! |
Anonymous
| He also tracked Elon Musk for awhile. |
Anonymous
And I think he tried to sue him as well |
Anonymous
Yes. I love this kid. |
Anonymous
Who also sued him. |
Anonymous
| She's being stalked and harrassed, but sure, she's the bad guy. |
Anonymous
+1 No kidding, I thought I was only one to see this glaringly obvious point. Stalkers can be really dangerous, because they always (always) downplay what they are doing. Always. |
Anonymous
Just like any celebrity she can be stalked on the ground at any time, people know where she lives, where she has concerts, goes to football games... I don't see how she can actually be effectively and dangerously stalked or harassed in the air. If anything it's less of a risk. And he cannot possibly know what plane she is ever in with certainty. |
Anonymous
She "threatened" legal action. It's a bluff. She won't actually do it. And the kid knows it. The whole thing is a farce. |
Anonymous
Oh, ok. Looks like we have the expert in being stalked here to tell us what's risky and what isn't. Taylor Swift doesn't know what she's talking about and has no reason to feel threatened. |
Anonymous
That’s probably not the company she’s looking to keep. |
Anonymous
Yep, and somehow the kid no longer tracks Musk pubilcly. The kid asked for $50,000 to stop putting Musk's plane tracking info on public sites (per the Washington Post today) though Musk supposedly didn't pay (sure, Elon, sure!). The data is publicly available, yes, but you need to know how to interpret and massage it to get it down to "Taylor Swift's plane is going from X to Y at these times." Which is actual information a stalker can use. Part of her suit against the guy is that stalkers, plural, have turned up at her homes (also plural) at specific times her lawyers say were determined by tracking her travel through this one guy's accounts. I don't think she'll win, and probably she shouldn't, legally, but I get the concerns involved. And the kid smells like a money-grubber. Who knows what other celebrities he's shaken down successfully, who pay him not to publicize their flights? |
Anonymous
It's just bad PR: I am sure her fans were looking forward to tracking her flight to Vegas after she and her PR team created such hype around the Chiefs. These fans are the same age group as that college kid, and they are just excited. None of them have the money to commandeer a private jet to trail her. It's pretty far-fetched in any case to imagine some supervillain is going to stalk her from Tokyo to Vegas... |