Taylor Swift Threatens To Take Legal Action Against 21-Year-Old Student for Tracking Her Private Jets
When it comes to dealing with a Florida college student who uses public data and social media to track the private jets of billionaires, politicians and other celebrities, Taylor Swift apparently can’t just shake it off. Taylor Swift’s Legal Team Issues Cease-and-Desist to a Man for Tracking Her Private Jet, Cites Safety Concerns – Details Inside!.
In late December, Swift’s camp hit Jack Sweeney, a junior studying information technology at the University of Central Florida, with a cease-and-desist letter that blamed his automated tracking of her private jet for tipping off stalkers as to her location. In the letter, attorneys from the law firm Venable accused Sweeney of effectively providing “individuals intent on harming her, or with nefarious or violent intentions, a roadmap to carry out their plans.”
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TAYLOR SWIFT THREATENS LEGAL ACTION AGAINST MAN BEHIND ELON JET
Swift’s attorneys have sent several cease-and-desist letters to 21-year-old Jack Sweeney, demanding that he stops posting the whereabouts of her private jet.
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Sweeney provided the link to that letter in an email to The Associated Press. In that message, he emphasised that while he has never intended to cause harm, he also believes strongly in the importance of transparency and public information. “One should reasonably expect that their jet will be tracked, whether or not I’m the one doing it, as it is public information after all,” he wrote.
A spokesperson for Swift echoed the legal complaint, saying that “the timing of stalkers” suggests a connection to Sweeney’s flight-tracking sites.
The spokesperson did not respond to questions seeking elaboration on that charge, such as whether stalkers had been seen waiting for Swift at the airport when her plane arrived or, alternatively, if there is evidence that stalkers had somehow inferred Swift’s subsequent location from the arrival time of her flight.
The legal letter likewise accuses Sweeney of “disregarding the personal safety of others”, “willful and repeated harassment of our client”, and “intentional, offensive, and outrageous conduct and consistent violations of our client’s privacy.” Such statements are difficult to square with the fact that Sweeney’s automated tracking accounts merely repackage public data provided by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), a government agency. That fact did not dissuade the Venable attorneys, who demanded that Sweeney “immediately stop providing information about our client’s location to the public.”
The Swift spokesperson did not reply to a question inquiring whether the attorneys had issued the same demand to the FAA. At one point, Sweeney had more than 30 such accounts on Twitter, now known as X, after Elon Musk purchased the site for USD 44 billion in 2022. Taylor Swift Threatens To Sue Florida College Student Who Tracks Her Private Jet- Complete Deets INSIDE.
Musk subsequently had his own dustup with Sweeney, tweeting at one point that his commitment to free speech required him not to ban Sweeney’s @elonjet account even though he considered it “a direct personal safety risk.”
But it wasn’t long before Musk abruptly about-faced and effectively banned the student from X, accusing Sweeney of endangering his personal safety.
