Taylor Swift threatens to sue student who tracks her private jet
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I don't think so. I highly doubt all her crew, backup dancers and singers all fly private jet. They either all together charter a larger plane or fly on regular airlines like the rest of us.
Fly first class, take a bus or stay home. Only because the schedule isn't as flexible as you like doesn't mean you can go destroy the planet more than the rest of us because it's convenient for you.
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 emissions were about 1,185 times more than the average person's total annual emissions."
Quite the coincidence.
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Given this is public information that any potential stalker could easily find themselves, do you think the student is doing anything wrong or illegal?
I haven’t fact checked this but if that’s true then I find that horrifying.
Also:
>Before the tour kicked off in March of 2023, Taylor purchased more than double the carbon credits needed to offset all tour travel
https://www.businessinsider.com/taylor-swift-spent-160-hours...
Really, I'd be more worried about the total amount of emissions from all the cars/flights from people going to her gigs. That's got to dwarf her own total.
https://consensus.app/results/?q=Does%20the%20carbon%20credi...
All this people carefully registering the journey of some random famous and shaming them online, should better stop, think, and use their time in this planet more wisely. Scapegoating and witch hunts online that try to blame climate change on some famous target are extremely stupid.
Even worse, they waste our time gossiping chasing ghosts, instead to act. Even small steps would really make a difference but we still are distracted hoping for a magical fix-all solution appearing at the last minute to put us out of the pan; This is very unlikely to happen, no matter how much soup we'll trow to the Mona Lisa. Is time to accept it.
Every study I've read that examines activities companies undertake in order to become "carbon neutral" has found that the results aren't actually environmentally neutral. A panda refuge, for example, requires a climate without too much warming, but it doesn't result in one. Bold geo-engineering would definitely convert dollars into a cooler world, but with undesirable and not fully understood side-effects.
FWIW, I don't like the jet tracking (for Taylor or Elon or anyone), but for different reasons. Transparency on climate emissions is fine, but disclosing the location of vehicles of famous people in real time is real security threat. If Jack Sweeney just delayed his posts by a week, they'd be pretty much indefensible. That wouldn't grow his following on X as fast, though...
For those wondering, https://www.zoomontana.org/animals/red-panda.
I think you can credibly make the argument that when these protocols were invented, the intent wasn't for the data to be this public or accessible, and that we could perhaps update the protocols to avoid something like this.
But from a technology point of view, saying that flight data is somehow private is like saying that if I set up an FM radio station and someone buys an FM radio and listens in they're somehow snooping on my radio station.
I think it makes sense for that data to be public. If you don't like it don't fly.
Also you can't prevent this sort of thing. Airplane ADS-B squawks ident info for collision avoidance and to help ATC (Air Traffic Control). The signal is simple for reliability and compatibility. Anyone can receive that data.
This whole thing about her carbon footprint is also nonsense assuming those jets are ferrying her crew and equipment that would just have to travel by commercial jet otherwise. Unless it's a lux jet just for her it makes as good as no difference in CO2 emissions whether her jet emits them or she pays United to do it.
Why would we assume anything else? There’s probably a private jet for her and a chartered one(s) for crew and equipment
But if the jet is configured to carry a decent number of people and is a substitute for buying her + crew (dancers, musicians, assistants, tech, etc) commercial tickets then the entire complaint about emissions is nonsense.
In my opinion would have to be a exaggeration. Who knows where she goes after leaving the airport. .....
The fact that there is flight data system is not much relevant, it could be modified to anonymize data.
If they would really care they should lobby to make their (or all?) flight data private. (which I find understandable)
Taylor Swift threatens legal action against student who tracks her jet
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/06/taylor-...)
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HN landed hard on the "sucks to be you" side of things with Musk, curious to see where this ends up.
Like I fully support transparency, and the data is already public, but are we really going to pretend that if in the one out of a million chances something happens to her, and it comes to light that the perpatrator in some form used this app, that it wouldn't sour people's views? It just seems like an unnecessary trouble to go through.