Re:ElonJet Is Now Suspended
by suyash on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @10:11AM
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Public data doesn't give you licenses to act unethically and immorally, laws are oftentimes poorly written.
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Why is republishing this information unethical and immoral? (Your words)
Re:ElonJet Is Now Suspended
by OrvalWintermute on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @11:11AM
(#33985560)
It is doxxing as his plane's location is a proxy for his location, similar to his cellphone.
Also, it violates Twitter's rules about physical location sharing
https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/personal-info...
Re:ElonJet Is Now Suspended
by BashiBazouk on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @01:00PM
(#33987166)
Not really. There is no guarantee that Elon is on the plane. He could loan it to a friend or one of his companies VPs. The plane could be at it's home airport, fly to another airport to pick Elon up, fly to a third airport to drop him off then return to the home airport. Elon would have been on only one of the three legs.
Re:ElonJet Is Now Suspended
by OrvalWintermute on Thursday December 15, 2022 @12:42AM
(#33995716)
Retract this statement, now that this crowdsourced data was used to stalk Elon's family.
KTHX
Re:ElonJet Is Now Suspended
by BashiBazouk on Friday December 16, 2022 @07:06PM
(#34022444)
Uh..why? There is nothing false about it...
Re:ElonJet Is Now Suspended
by 4512124672456 on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @12:00PM
(#33986338)
This whole article is about private information. The flight data is, as enough people already told you, not private information. For good reason.
Re:ElonJet Is Now Suspended
by OrvalWintermute on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @06:50PM
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Social Security Numbers used to be treated as quasi public data too.
He's not doing anything unethical or immoral.
invasion of privacy ?
What's in the plane is private, where the plane is isn't.
Twitter (and Musk) has access to pinpoint each of their users with the same precision, I feel it's a poetic balance.
whose, the airplane's?
This is all public information already. There is no invasion of privacy.
Re:ElonJet Is Now Suspended
by OrvalWintermute on Thursday December 15, 2022 @10:15AM
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He is merging in public data and private surveilliance data from personnel at airports, and then publicizing it.
It is stalking.