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[–] FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

It’s a fine line against stalking, so maybe do it with a few hundred of your friends.

Also NAL, but that's an interesting idea. If I constantly follow Zuck around, might be stalking. But if I spot him Mon at 3pm and never see him again in my life, and someone else Mon at 4pm, and someone at 5pm... I wonder if that's a legal loophole. Tho, might be hard to spot him at all.

Even privatebjets emit a transponder signal

There was a big controvery over Elon's transponder. Also for Taylor Swift and other very high profile celebs. I lost track of where it ended up. From here,

The most prominent was @ElonJet, which tracked Elon Musk’s air travel and amassed more than half a million followers in 2022. The account’s creator, then 19-year-old Jack Sweeney, became embroiled in a public feud with Musk after rejecting a cash offer from the Tesla CEO to delete the account. Sweeney was eventually banned from Twitter after Musk acquired the platform in October 2022.

Ofc just being banned from Twitter doesn't effect the data, which is still available on public web sites.