College student tracking Taylor Swift’s jets fires back in legal letter

Jack Sweeney, 21, posted a letter from his attorney on X with the caption, "Look what you made me do," after receiving a cease-and-desist from Swift’s attorney in December.

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[faizahl]

I went to flight radar, searched the stadium of her Tokyo concert, found the closest airport, looked for private jets which are located at the end or on the private terminal, and found 2 jets. That's all it took to find taylor

[mamabugs]

She makes her concert schedule public, don’t think anyone wouid have any trouble finding out where she is

[ssok]

To be fair, he’s technically tracking a jet, no proof Taylor is in it.

[RDSSPIEGEL]

Companies make millions of sharing our private data but god forbid a rich person get the same treatment

[justifiend]

According to the report, Swift was the biggest celebrity CO2 polluter of the year. The report accused her of generating 8293.54 tonnes of carbon emissions. Her private jet usage amounted to an estimated 8, 300 tonnes of carbon emissions in 2022 – that's about 1, 800 times the average human's annual emissions, or 576 times that of the average American and about 1, 000 times that of the average European.

[lordfreerealestate]

It's so disturbing to sue someone into silence just because they exposed you as a hypocrite.

[jant]

Just because she doesn’t like it doesn’t make it illegal

[thnder]

Yeah it really puts swift in danger a guy tracking her plane on sites that are available to the public 🙄

[Lizzbird_]

Aren’t there multiple apps that you can publicly track aircraft

[Themoment]

So... making it about stalking is a disservice to the main reason - carbon emissions. This is about unnecessary air travel that harms the environment.

[brandondiaz]

If she has money for a private plane she has money for high security.
This applies to anyone who can afford a private plane.

[joelyates]

Maybe she should sue the NFL. They reveal her location in real time.

[michaelrmurphy]

Aircraft flight information is public information. It is posted. He just knew where to access it and post it online.

[MathieuCastro]

Anyone that actually wanted to track down Swift could get all of this information themself online. Even buying a ticket to one of her shows guarantees you'll be in the same location as her. People literally only care because it's Swift. 90% of the outrage makes no acknowledgement about others tracked such as Musk or Gates. They didn't care about this kid then nor care enough to be bothered back then. Crazy the amount of people that think this kid started a website just to track Swift.

[austinbandy]

Elon the tech giant himself couldn't stop him. This guy is bulletproof

[Slips]

Her legal battle is with the FAA for publicly releasing her information not with individuals who use that information legally

[NubyPlaysGaming]

Neither Taylor Swift nor Elon Musk deserve privacy on their use of private jet aircraft.

[desireec.]

I don’t get it why would Taylor care since everyone already knows where she is with all these concerts. Imagine all the creeps that are showing up to that

[jennsan]

Or… just drive for 30 minutes instead of taking 13 minute flights everywhere.

[goodcitizen]

If the information is public, he has done nothing unlawful. He may he acting in a fecitious manner but that does not mean he has broken any laws. Celebrities are not above the public.