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tom66:

--- Quote from: Psi on December 17, 2022, 03:54:10 am ---Yeah, using public data (or non-public data that is trivial to obtain) for the purpose of realtime tracking of someone is being a dick and can be dangerous.
No one should have to deal with that.
I know there is something in the law in some countries about public facing people having to accept some amount of less anonymity vs regular people.
But providing a realtime tracking service for anyone shouldn't be allowed for any person without their permission.

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All the Musk Jet account did was post where N628TS was.  This is publicly known as Elon's private jet and the information is broadcast on the radio waves.  If Elon wanted to do so he could apply via the FAA to have his codesign periodically changed, for the purposes of privacy.

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/equipadsb/privacy

But instead he muscles in and sues the guy and bans him from Twitter - despite saying he was cool with it about a month after buying the company!

MT:

--- Quote from: tom66 on December 17, 2022, 12:32:38 am ---Elon's lost it again.

Banned the Musk Jet account, promising to sue the creator, and then banning loads of journalists for tweeting about it.  Involved in a debate in the 'Spaces' feature, which he ragequit after getting loads of questions from journalists, and then axed the entire feature afterwards which deleted the recording (fortunately, someone screencap'd the whole thing)

Also making a bizarre claim about a stalker threatening the life of his child but no report to LAPD and no dashcam video (despite the car carrying the kid being a Tesla - odd).  Claims this was reason to ban the jet tracker, but there's no evidence the two events if they even happened are connected.

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Aaaaaaaand "tada" Musk reverses the ban and reinstall them based on public opinion! Good golly geee Musk is losing himself! :popcorn:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/elon-musk-releases-lefty-journalist-twitter-jail-after-poll

Ed.Kloonk:

--- Quote from: tom66 on December 17, 2022, 06:08:41 pm ---

All the Musk Jet account did was post where N628TS was.  This is publicly known as Elon's private jet and the information is broadcast on the radio waves.  If Elon wanted to do so he could apply via the FAA to have his codesign periodically changed, for the purposes of privacy.



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Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Have a think about the freedom you have to drive your car down to the store to buy a pack of smokes without the internet reporting all about it. Why were you buying the smokes? What are you going to do with the smokes? You're going to try and secretly start your kids smoking, aren't you?

wraper:

--- Quote from: tom66 on December 17, 2022, 06:08:41 pm ---All the Musk Jet account did was post where N628TS was.  This is publicly known as Elon's private jet and the information is broadcast on the radio waves. If Elon wanted to do so he could apply via the FAA to have his codesign periodically changed, for the purposes of privacy.

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Elon actually did that. And the guy bragged about getting around it.

Psi:
It's abusing a system to stalk someone.
Yes, anyone could find the info, but that doesn't mean its ok to process the info and use it for this sort of purpose.

It's like the old phone books that were in order of last name and initials and if you looked up someone name in the book you could find their phone number and address.
But it was illegal to use the info to make a new book reordered by phone number to locate an address and name from a phone number.

It should be illegal to use flight tracking data to create a system to enable stalking someone in realtime.

Elon has said that its the real time aspect that he has an issue with.

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