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Tracking a car is illegal. Tracking jets is legal for safety purposes. And this is pretty much a false equivalency unless these jets are now landing on Starbucks like a drop ship.

All we know is Person X landed in Port Y. that doesn't narrow down much on where they are like a car in a parking lot.

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> Tracking a car is illegal. Tracking jets is legal for safety purposes

Tracking a car is fully legal, you can use ALPRs, follow the car etc.

What you cannot do is attach your own tracking devices to cars, just like you cannot attach one to Zuck's or Musk's plane.

Yes, the only reasonable way to track a car without stalking is to use a device, which is illegal.

And yes, you cannot attach one to a jet. But the jet needs to follow FAA regulations so we don't have to.

It's perfectly legal if you install a device the owners fully agreed to install and signed a 3-days long licensing text explicitly saying it that they didn't bother to read. Which is exactly what Facebook is doing.

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