Billionaires, Hollywood celebrities and climate change activists share the fame, fortune and profile they stubbornly try to control. That’s why so many people are urging a public company not to track their flights or disclose their carbon footprint.
Flight-tracking websites and Twitter accounts that offer a real-time view of air traffic are at the end of regular resistance as complaints and equipment confiscation from people who don’t prefer their actions, AFP reported.
According to organizer Dan Streufert, the US-based group alone receives dozens of “requests” each year to stop publishing information about aircraft flights.
“We haven’t fired anything yet. This is all public information. Streifert, founder of the ADS-B Exchange flight tracking website, added Streifert, who can track every flight from a private individual to a politician, star, activist, or member. from the royal family. .
Are these raindrops flying private jets or not? I asked a friend. https://t.co/J5Q5ykzEQr
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) December 1, 2020
The AFP report points to restrictions that apply in some cases, but the groups compiling the flight routes note that the main source of information is legally available and can be made fully available to anyone with the right equipment.
US regulations require aircraft in certain areas to be equipped with ADS-B technology, which transmits aircraft position data using signals that can be received by relatively simple equipment. He tells what follows:
A service like Sweden’s Flightradar24 has 34,000 receivers worldwide, most of them volunteers, to receive signals, the main source of information that is fed back into a centralized network and combined with flight schedule data and aircraft information.
Jet scout Jack Sweeney, who filed a public registration request with the U.S. government that resulted in a form signed by Tesla boss Elon Musk, who owns a particular plane, said it may take some research to find or verify who the plane really belongs to. .
Sweeney came to the fore with his Twitter account that followed the billionaire’s airplane movements, and even turned down Musk’s offer to shut down @ElonJet, which has more than 480,000 followers.
The Flightradar24 app on a smartphone in front of a screen displaying the current location of the aircraft being tracked in the Los Angeles, California area on August 5, 2022. How can we piss off Russian trucking companies Elon Musk, Chinese officials and Kylie Jenner in one go? Follow your planes… still The effect builds resistance from complaints to transmission hijacking. (via Getty by CHRIS DELMAS/AFP)
“A lot of traction, I’m doing the right thing. Celebrities – people want to watch what celebrities are doing, this and all those emissions,” he told AFP, referring to concerns about airplane exposure to greenhouse gases.
“Tweeting makes it easier for people to access and understand,” Sweeney said.
Another Sweeney Twitter account, based on data from ADS-B Exchange, announced that in July, American model and celebrity Kylie Jenner’s jet flew just 17 minutes to California, according to Breitbart News.
Kylie Jenner’s plane took off from Camarillo, California, USA. Departure from Van Nuys, California, USA (VNY, Van Nuys Airport), arrival ~ 3 m. pic.twitter.com/Jo0ZAfaJ69
— Celebrity Jets (@CelebJets) 13 July 2022
The internet didn’t like it.
The star quickly faced a flood of criticism on social media for concerns about her message on climate change, while others pointed to sheer hypocrisy.
Jenner has been labeled a “climate criminal” for quickly boarding a private jet with boyfriend Travis Scott in response to Taylor Swift’s backlash for her frequent private jet flights.
Taylor Swift needs her private jet, how else will she travel the world to collect all the sparkly jumpsuits there is?
— Zach Schiffman (@schlife) 31 July 2022
The problem goes beyond Taylor Swift and private jets. Celebrities, corporations, and the super-rich leave huge carbon footprints – a global trend. The richest 1% emit about 70 times more carbon than the poorest 50%.
— Adam Best (@adamcbest) 30 July 2022
“They tell us working-class people that we feel bad that we fly once a year on a crucial vacation when these celebrities fly in private jets like Uber every other day,” he wrote. @juliphoria on Twitter, this is another example of anger.
“We’re going to track everything, because frankly, if someone’s a really bad player and they want to know where they are, you can make $100 electronics and place receivers to pick up the same signals on yourself.” said Streufert of ADS. -B Exchange verifies that the data is already there. It just needs to be distributed.
Climate activists were also called in after being watched as they made some of the flights they once made in their private jets, which was a completely private affair, as Bill Gates had to admit:
In some parts of the world, governments have made it clear that the technology and information they receive is not welcome and that they are prepared to take action – by force if necessary – against it.
Chinese state media reported that in 2021 the authoritarian communist government seized hundreds of receivers used in crowdsourced flight tracking, citing the risk of “espionage.”
“In many cases, authoritarian regimes don’t want this disclosure,” Streufert said.
Source: Breitbart
