Taylor Swift Threatens Legal Action Against Student Who Tracks Her Carbon Footprint/Private Jet Usage

[Madonna 46,062]

Taylor Swift's attorneys have threatened legal action against a Florida college student who runs social media accounts tracking the flights of her and other celebrities' private jets.

 

Jack Sweeney, a junior at the University of Central Florida, has for years run accounts that log the takeoffs and landings of planes and helicopters owned by hundreds of billionaires, politicians, Russian oligarchs and other public figures, along with estimates of their planet-warming emissions. The accounts use publicly available data from the Federal Aviation Administration and volunteer hobbyists who can track the aircraft via the signals they broadcast.

 

In December, Swift's attorney at the Washington law firm Venable wrote Sweeney a cease-and-desist letter saying Swift would "have no choice but to pursue any and all legal remedies" if he did not stop his "stalking and harassing behavior".

 

Sweeney, 21, told The Post he saw the letter as an attempt to scare him away from sharing public data. The accounts offer only an incomplete sketch of which cities Swift might currently be in, similar to the public schedules for her concerts or any NFL games she might attend, he said. And the letters, he added, were sent to him at a time when she faced criticism over her flights' environmental impact.

Private-jet flights are criticized for their disproportionately high impact on climate change, and Sweeney's accounts have often been used to name and shame their most famous passengers. In 2022, the accounts were cited in an analysis that estimated "climate terrorist" Taylor Swift was the biggest celebrity [carbon dioxide] polluter of the year. "This information is already out there", he said. "Her team thinks they can control the world".

 

After receiving the letters, Sweeney said he asked for help from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group, which sent his request to a list of attorneys. James Slater, a Florida lawyer who specializes in First Amendment and internet speech issues, responded on Sweeney's behalf to the Venable letter: "This isn't about putting a GPS tracker on someone and invading their privacy. It's using public information to track the jet of a public figure", he said. “This is their means to try to quash a PR issue and bully my client to have the bad coverage die down".

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/06/taylor-swift-jet-tracking-legal-threat/

 

Hitlor's attempt to put a gag order on anyone who is a threat to her image continues. When will people wake up to this narcissist's behavior?

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Edited February 7 by ajp
Oops I was drunk posting last night…

[Chris 59,253]

1 hour ago, Madonna said:

Hitlor's attempt to put a gag order on anyone who is a threat to her image continues. When will people wake up to this narcissist's behavior?

  Taylor has a history of being a victim of stalking (several men have followed her to her house on separate occasions) so this is more of a privacy concern that trying to cover up any carbon footprint mess

the person posting her Jet usage could have posted without saying where in the world Taylor is  

[Darth Sidious 11,696]

I lowkey get it, even when that freakjob Musk did this. 

It’s weird, and I’d be a little angry if my stalker who broke into my house with a machete showed up at the airport or some shit. 

I also think it’s a little much to call this the act of a narcissist, because at the end of the day, if it meant that much to anyone, they could gain access to that information no matter who was threatened with a lawsuit, I actually do feel that this bit of a violation of privacy though to broadcast it on twitter. 

But I dare Musk to keep this account up, I fucking dare him. He spent $50 Billion dollars to suspend that ElonJet account. 

[Princess Aurora 31,749]

OMG 

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