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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She's being stalked and harrassed, but sure, she's the bad guy.[/quote]

lol. She’s the victim? Another filthy rich hypocrite. :roll: [/quote]

Well, yeah, she's being stalked.  [/quote]

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![/quote]

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.  [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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