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0 pointskjksf3y ago0 comments

Can I attach a GPS tracker to your car and publish the coordinates in real time to the internet?

Of course I can't. It would be illegal.

Not because of disingenuous "car has a right to privacy" logic but because any judge would conclude that by tracking a car you're tracking the owner of the car and the owner does have a right to privacy.

Similarly, if the name @ElonJet doesn't give out the purpose: the account is tracking Elon by way of tracking his jet.

Morally speaking, the justification for transparency of jet location was to track them in order to increase safety of flying.

It wasn't to enable tracking of rich people.

It's legal but it's a loophole.

And somehow Elon hate completely overshadows the fact that the guy running @ElonJet account is an asshole.

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anigbrowl3y ago

I think you'll find that it has far more to do with directly interfering with another person's property without permission. If you publish someone's coordinates by using publicly accessible traffic cameras or (cost considerations aside) flying your own news helicopter around, the arguments become a lot vaguer. It's not clear that there's a legal/constitutional right to privacy in the US, and indeed recent supreme court decisions about abortion seem to reject the notion; jurisprudence in the 1970s saw an implicit right to privacy in certain constitutional provisions, an idea which 'originalists' regard as BS.

Q6T46nT668w6i3m3y ago

I think you misunderstand the situation. The transponder transmits the data. This isn’t anything like attaching a GPS device to someone’s car.

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