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Jack Sweeney, who gained notoriety for his @ElonJet account on X and maintained many of the suspended accounts, said on Threads that the development is “reminiscent of all my accounts getting suspended on Twitter.” The shuttered accounts, which used publicly available data to show the flight paths of private jets, initially displayed a message on Monday that read, “The link you followed may be broken, or the page may have been removed.”

Meta provided no direct warning or explanation for the suspensions, according to Sweeney, who says the accounts appear “blacked out with no options to interact or receive information.” In a statement to TechCrunch, however, an unnamed Meta spokesperson said “Given the risk of physical harm to individuals, and in keeping with the independent Oversight Board’s recommendation, we’ve disabled these accounts for violating our privacy policy.”

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[-] ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

My name, address and phone number are public too but if you were to share it on social media you'd be breaking the law.

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 70 points 2 months ago

https://flightradar24.com

All I need is your flight number. You don't know how any of this works, do you?

You don't even need the Internet, just search up ADS-B receivers on Amazon. The plane and the ATC system itself is tattling on you every second, blasting your position out over the air.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 25 points 2 months ago
[-] ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

I believe it's prohibited under GDPR as well as many local laws.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 31 points 2 months ago
[-] ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Do you think there shouldn't be any laws prohibiting the sharing of people's personal information like that?

[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

Not when it comes to air traffic.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 29 points 2 months ago

No, I don't think phone books should be illegal.

[-] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 25 points 2 months ago

The websites track the planes not the individuals.

The planes might be flying empty. It has nothing to do with GDPR.

[-] XaiwahBlue 10 points 2 months ago

Is that question really "in good-faith" to "that law doesn't apply in my country"?

[-] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 15 points 2 months ago

If you put your name, address and phone number on a public forum and someone shares that do you think that's breaking the law? Doxxing generally applies to making personal identifiable information public without that persons consent. Those celebrities are making their own data public, or rather their private jets are because they're required to publicly broadcast their location in real time.

If those accounts are collecting public information they're not doing anything illegal. Otherwise we might as well call libraries illegal because they contain a registry of every book author whose book is in the library.

[-] uzay@infosec.pub 4 points 2 months ago

If they are public, no it is not illegal. If they are not public, but I have them because I provide a service to you, then yes it is illegal (most likely). In this case it is public information, and not even personal information. It is a plane identifier and that plane's location. The only reason that tells you anything about it's passenger is because said passenger is rich and entitled enough to own their own plane and use it for themself. It's like buying the Empire State Building to live there by yourself and then complaining about someone tweeting out your address.

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago

What does that have to do with airplanes ?

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