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Re:List of blocked aircraft on Flightradar24 (2013) by dagw on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @11:09AM (#9732277)
It's not at all analogous. A turn signal tells the people around me that I'm just about to turn, not that I'm on a road trip from Chicago to Tucson. Nor is my entire turn signal history centrally logged and searchable.
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Re:List of blocked aircraft on Flightradar24 (2013) by jMyles on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @01:53PM (#9733872)
There are two analogies:

- The broadcast of your location data is analogous to a turn signal.

- The FR24 community is analogous to a group capturing data about use of turn signals at various intersections and aggregating them.

Both are perfectly reasonable analogies.

And yes, it's completely possible for people using only publicly-visible information to put together your entire turn signal history and make it searchable.

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