Taylor Swift suing college kid tracking celebrity jets

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:She's being stalked and harrassed, but sure, she's the bad guy.

lol. She’s the victim? Another filthy rich hypocrite.

Well, yeah, she's being stalked.

Oh please. Just a smokescreen to deflect from her hypocrisy. The rich elites want you to sip from paper straws, ride public transport, and fly Spirit cattle class while they use a $75M jet like an Uber.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The wackjobs are the ones that will go find this publicly available information no matter what. That's why she has a huge security team. She's suing because she doesn't like being seen as a hypocrite on climate change. That's all this is.

Not a Taylor fan, but if the point is climate change hypocrisy, you could easily publish mileage/frequency without actual flight details.

Stalking is no joke.

[Anonymous]

Good for her! She has a stalker who's been a personal threat to her for years, so this kid isn't helping even if it is already public information.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The wackjobs are the ones that will go find this publicly available information no matter what. That's why she has a huge security team. She's suing because she doesn't like being seen as a hypocrite on climate change. That's all this is.

Not a Taylor fan, but if the point is climate change hypocrisy, you could easily publish mileage/frequency without actual flight details.

Stalking is no joke.

People want receipts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She's being stalked and harrassed, but sure, she's the bad guy.

Knowing where her airplane is is not going to help a stalker. They can look at her tour schedule or see her broadcast at NFL games and know her location.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:He also tracked Elon Musk for awhile.

Who also sued him.

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?

Well, the lawyers didn’t really say stalkers had gotten info from the tracker accounts. That was the PR person making it seem that way…

Taylor doesn’t like being criticized for using more fuel than a hundred or more people do each year.

She doesn’t want the bad publicity.

The letter from her lawyers was kind of dumb and one of the lawyers specializes in cleaning up bad news.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She's being stalked and harrassed, but sure, she's the bad guy.

lol. She’s the victim? Another filthy rich hypocrite.

Well, yeah, she's being stalked.

She probably is being stalked but not by this guy. He's tracking her jet, whether she's on it or not (and sometimes she's not, and he has no idea whether she is or not). He's also tracking a bunch of other planes. There is no allegation that he's actually following any of these people or encouraging others to do so (again, he's not even reporting on the movements of people, just jets they own or are associated with).

Stalking statutes vary a little, but it's very hard to fit what he's doing into their definition. One aspect of stalking can be "surveilling," which might include online surveillance via social media or something like what this guy is doing. But unless he's also tracking Taylor in other ways, it's hard to argue that just tracking public info about her jet qualifies as online surveillance, because it's limited to tracking a plane moving between airports (a very high level movement) and because he's not even trying to figure out if Taylor's on the plane or not (it's actually irrelevant for his purposes, which have more to do with seeing how much wealthy people are using PJs and for what purposes). I think it would be incredibly hard to win a stalking case against him unless it turns out he's secretly also tracking social media and other information.

It's possible she could get some kind of "stay away" order though that would require him to stop reporting on her plane, if she could show that his reports are being used by others in a way that threatens her safety. That's probably what her potential case hinges on. She might have enough info about her actual stalkers using his info in scary ways to convince a judge that it's necessary for her safety, I don't know. It would really depend on the facts.

It's tough because we are still figuring out what it means to stalk someone in an era where so much info is available about people online, including this kind of tracking of planes. I have mixed feelings because I do think she's entitled to some privacy (not absolute privacy -- she's a public person and therefore willingly gives up a good amount of privacy) and she's absolutely entitled to safety. But the kind of private jet use she engages in is a public interest -- private jet usage is a genuinely concerning environmental threat and I think making all private jet usage private would ultimately do more harm than good. I don't know what the balance is here, luckily I'm not the one who has to figure it out!

She's not "probably" being stalked, she is being stalked. Same guy has been arrested 3 times for stalking her. And if the stalkers are getting her flight information from the college kid, then he is indirectly responsible. If people are only interested in the emissions a jet produces, then its flight can activity can still be tracked without identifying its passengers. This isn't some kind of moral quandary.

I don’t think the stalker who is constantly outside her NYC door needs her flight info to know when she’s in town.

Taylor doesn’t have much of a case here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aside from the kid compiling the data for easy consumption, why is the flight info public? What other purpose does it serve other than helping paparazzi and stalkers? I'm sure there is a great reason but people never say it other than "its public anyway if you know where to look"

Because flights need to be tracked so they don’t hit each other.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:She's being stalked and harrassed, but sure, she's the bad guy.

Knowing where her airplane is is not going to help a stalker. They can look at her tour schedule or see her broadcast at NFL games and know her location.

Go bring it up to your buddy Elon.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:She's being stalked and harrassed, but sure, she's the bad guy.

+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.

I'm a lawyer and saw the problem right away. This thread should be deleted. OP is stupid and/ or a troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She's being stalked and harrassed, but sure, she's the bad guy.

+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.

I'm a lawyer and saw the problem right away. This thread should be deleted. OP is stupid and/ or a troll.

Why delete the OP. There was a question about the student's actions amount to a credible lawsuit. Then an article link was posted.

Why this big reaction, pp?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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/

Good. He announced he was doing this and this makes him a stalker.

[Anonymous]

The kid is nothing more than a criminal. He wanted $50,000 from Musk to stop following him. Taylor just sold her jet. This kid should be in prison.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She's being stalked and harrassed, but sure, she's the bad guy.

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.

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.

Do you need to be an expert to know what stalking is? Why are you downplaying it? Just bc you're a jealous ahole?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He also tracked Elon Musk for awhile.

Who also sued him.

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?

Well, the lawyers didn’t really say stalkers had gotten info from the tracker accounts. That was the PR person making it seem that way…

Taylor doesn’t like being criticized for using more fuel than a hundred or more people do each year.

She doesn’t want the bad publicity.

The letter from her lawyers was kind of dumb and one of the lawyers specializes in cleaning up bad news.

Taylor could take a poo in the middle of the WH lawn and her fans would still love her. She doesn't gaf about how people criticize her use of jet fuel. LOL