• aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Those flight logs are public information because they prevent mid air collisions, your not going to change that.

    One way to prevent being personally identified is to not fly around in your own personal jet and use one of the many other available options that aren’t trackable this way.

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      10 months ago

      Several points:

      • Lots of information is public, such as your address. That doesn’t mean somebody explicitly publishing your address for the purpose of harassing you isn’t committing an offence.

      • Some celebrities can’t fly on passenger planes for their own safety and even that of others or the proper functioning of infrastructure. Can you imagine Taylor Swift trying to fly on a public carrier? She would get mobbed at the very least. At worst she might be putting her health or even her life in danger. Especially now that the MAGA morons are attacking her.

      I find Taylor Swift bland as beige, I don’t get the appeal at all, and I think Musk is a rabid twatwaffle. I also don’t believe anyone should really get to be so wealthy. Still, there are good reasons why one might need to travel by private means without their movements being broadcast.

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            10 months ago

            I mean, if I had the choice of meeting one of them, I’d 100% pick Hugh Jackman. By all accounts, the dude is a genuinely cool guy.

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              10 months ago

              How about Keanu? I think he would be cool to meet as well. Would genuinely find it hard to choose between the two (Hugh and Keanu)

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            10 months ago

            I honestly don’t know.

            I know Hugh Jackman has been in couple movies couple years ago, and he is also in one of the movies I liked.

            I thought Taylor Swift stopped singing after the Romeo Juliet song. I didn’t realize people still cares about her until last year.

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        10 months ago

        Some celebrities can’t fly on passenger planes

        Note that isn’t the only option. They can charter private planes. Still not publicly trackable as it isn’t public knowledge that a given tail number equals that celebrity.

        Still, if it’s about environment, abstracting the flight to an odometer would suffice without stalkery implications. However I presume it’s not hard to get the tail number for a rando, and then they don’t need any help tracking her in particular, public flight tracking resources would do it. So while she might be able to fight a targeted tracker, probably the worst she has to fear would still be able to track her.

        If I were anywhere vaguely in those shoes, I’d always use chartered private planes, limo services, etc. I would not move about in easily recognized and tracked personally owned transportation. Of course I’m not and definitely wouldn’t want to be flying much at all, but if I were in a position where I needed to fly, but couldn’t reasonably risk sitting among random folks, then chartering a flight seems a logical strategy.