Taylor Swift threatens to sue student who tracks her private jet
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Flight information is public information. It needs to be. It’s not optional. If you don’t want it to be I’m sorry don’t fly.
But what I was taught is never let your lawyers negotiate for you, because they will default to a framework if risk containment, and tend to escalate situations unnecessarily. Especially ones that require a bit of sensitivity or a gentle touch.
Results in nice fees for them. Look at the motivations, always look at the motivations if you want to understand why people act some way.
I can also say that after having watched some of my lawyer friends go through divorces there is sometimes some merit to the idea that there is a certain kind of mind that finds problems. Almost a heat seeking missle that’s professionally paid large sums to find the problems in every situation.
Amazing for protecting. Terrible for diplomacy at times.
Similarly the location of your mobile phone is public information, for technical reasons it has to be. Just like aircraft, your phone constantly broadcasts identifying information for all the world to hear. Additionally, just about anyone anywhere in the world can query the phone network for information about which cell tower your phone is connected to.
I suspect many would not be very happy if there was a twitter account tracking the location of their cell phone.
I don’t like my driving history being tracked, but I still have insurance and a license.
It’s sucks but a lot of information we might want to not exist… exists. And I have no special place in mg heart that we should make an exception because someone is very wealthy.
The musk thing was outrage at "Good for thee but not for me" behavior, not the act itself.
It is like peak hypocrisy for people to watch something like that. Same for COP meetings full of private jets which are not even taken seriously anymore.
In 2022, Swift topped the list of celebrities with the highest private jet CO2 emissions, according to digital marketing firm Yard.
The organisation found that her jet emission were about 1,185 times more than the average person's total annual emissions."
She’s literally suing for privacy.