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0 pointsmichaelbuckbee3y ago0 comments

A lot of hypocrisy from Elon here, but I'm at least somewhat sympathetic to taking down these accounts that are tracking people as it's so close to a Doxing or could lead to something bad happening.

A few years ago, we were all mad at Uber for their "God View" which tracked celebrity locations -> https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-38314832

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breakingcups3y ago· 1 in thread

Uber used their own private, proprietary information. Flights are public by design. If he had a problem with that, he should not own a jet.

shkkmo3y ago

The data isn't publicly available from the government because the plane is on the LADD list https://laddlist.com/aircraft/N628ts

Thus the only public source is ADSBExchange because it uses croudsourced data.

So the data isn't "public by design" but due to a lack of privacy laws that prohibit selling this sort location data.

Cthulhu_3y ago· 1 in thread

Ironic, given Elon now has access to everyone's Twitter data, including location data and private messages - and he's already selling or giving it to others like political figures he wants to influence, mark my words.

shkkmo3y ago

> and he's already selling or giving it to others like political figures he wants to influence

Do you have any evidence for this assertion?

Edit: To me, this possibility is why we need laws that protect people from having this sort of private information sold or distributed.

Yeah, meanwhile a guy who has millions of followers and keeps spewing conspiracy nonsense about stolen elections is allowed back in because of course nothing bad could ever happen out of inciting that.

ProAm3y ago

This is publicly available information. It's nothing close to doxing.

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