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A comment on Twitter restored ElonJet account. Parent comment

Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account by mytailorisrich on Thursday December 15, 2022 @02:37AM (#33996402)
The available flight information does not identify anyone.

I can go on one of those websites, see all those flights, but I have no idea who the belong to or who's on board.

That changes once someone specifically links a private jet to someone.

Within the EU I'd be interested in the ramifications with regards to the GDPR.

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Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account by philderbeast on Thursday December 15, 2022 @04:15AM (#33997046)
none whatsoever.

the linking is done simply by looking up who the plane is registered to, and that is also public information.

you can of course always go the other way, look who owns a plane, and the go to flight information from there.

there is nothing private about any of the information used in the process.

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Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account by mytailorisrich on Thursday December 15, 2022 @04:28AM (#33997147)
> none whatsoever

I would ponder the GDPR's definition of personal data before making such definitive claim.

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Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account by jacquesm on Thursday December 15, 2022 @04:41AM (#33997240)
This all plays out in the USA.
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Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account by mytailorisrich on Thursday December 15, 2022 @05:15AM (#33997474)
Irrelevant to my point/question.
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Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account by sc0ttyd on Thursday December 15, 2022 @07:50AM (#33998733)
The GDPR only applies to businesses, not individuals. So, clearly in this case it does not apply at all since the person behind @ElonJet is acting in an individual capacity.

https://dataprivacymanager.net/who-does-the-eu-gdpr-apply-to...

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Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account by KingOfCoders on Thursday December 15, 2022 @08:02AM (#33998864)
"The GDPR only applies to businesses"

No.

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Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account by KingOfCoders on Thursday December 15, 2022 @11:14AM (#34001711)
The GDPR applies to everyone, except "by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity", member states and some authorities.
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Re:Twitter restored ElonJet account by detaro on Thursday December 15, 2022 @07:52AM (#33998751)
> The GDPR only applies to businesses, not individuals.

That's not true.

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