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In late December, Swift’s camp hit Jack Sweeney, a junior studying information technology at the University of Central Florida, with a cease-and-desist letter that blamed his automated tracking of her private jet for tipping off stalkers as to her location. In the letter, attorneys from the law firm Venable accused Sweeney of effectively providing “individuals intent on harming her, or with nefarious or violent intentions, a roadmap to carry out their plans.”

Sweeney provided the link to that letter in an email to the Associated Press. In that message, he emphasized that while he has never intended to cause harm, he also believes strongly in the importance of transparency and public information.

“One should reasonably expect that their jet will be tracked, whether or not I’m the one doing it, as it is public information after all,” he wrote.

A spokesperson for Swift echoed the legal complaint, saying that “the timing of stalkers” suggests a connection to Sweeney’s flight-tracking sites. The spokesperson did not respond to questions seeking elaboration of that charge, such as whether stalkers have been seen waiting for Swift at the airport when her plane arrived or, alternatively, if there is evidence that stalkers have somehow inferred Swift’s subsequent location from the arrival time of her flight.

The legal letter likewise accuses Sweeney of “disregarding the personal safety of others”; “willful and repeated harassment of our client”; and “intentional, offensive, and outrageous conduct and consistent violations of our client’s privacy.”

Such statements are difficult to square with the fact that Sweeney’s automated tracking accounts merely repackage public data provided by the Federal Aviation Administration, a government agency. That fact did not dissuade the Venable attorneys, who demanded that Sweeney “immediately stop providing information about our client’s location to the public.”

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[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

Is this Jack Sweeney's tracker?

https://jackstech.net/planes

Which one is Taylor Swift's plane? Is it "Cosmic Girl?"

He has a much better site right here. It's awesome!!! https://globe.theairtraffic.com/

I'm literally here watching the planes on the map and listening to the noises as they pass by. What's wrong with this at all? It's like just tracking cars and the guy is doing nothing more than just relaying data.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A quick googling....Taylor Swift owns two multi-million dollar private jets: A Dassault Falcon 7x, registered N621MM under Island Jet Inc. And a Dassault Falcon 900, registered N898TS under SATA LLFC.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 points 9 months ago

Oh cool. Here’s a pic of the F900 and the F7X

I love the sharp increase in views on these pictures today. Basically the Streisand effect in action.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Jack has a mastodon account!

https://mastodon.social/@JxckS

Ofcourse he does. Who wouldn't!

[–] MIDItheKID@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Hah! Look at this silly little guy getting all loopy off the coast of LA

This is way more fun than it should be.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My house is under the approach path to Boston Logan. Even though I’m over 30 miles from Logan, we can still hear planes if we’re outside and the winds are right for them to come in this way.

I have an app that shows me the exact position of any plane, where it came from, and where it’s going…though the destination isn’t always available for private and charter flights, a reasonable person could make a pretty good guess, well before landing, just going from changes in altitude and speed.

This is a free app. There’s a paid version that’s probably slightly less annoying and gives more tracking features. But even the free version…I click on a plane overhead, and I can see every flight it took in the past 7 days. The paid version bumps that up to upto a year.

[–] madelena@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago

The one I use is FlightRadar24. Didn’t want to give the name unless asked.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Jfc his drones go out and bitch about Tay-Tays 16-passenger F7X while this motherfucker is bussing around in a B757?

How many people is he flying with, as an individual (not even the leader of the free world ffs), that justifies a fucking 757?

[–] thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How many people is he flying with

Well Epstein, that's at least 1

[–] VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Ghislaine Maxwell is at least 2

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Oh that's a 747 for stratolaunch from Virgin Galactic. Would have been a cool TeTe plane name.