Hundreds of thousands of people follow celebrity flights, backlash over privacy concerns
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Flight Tracking has been described as a "summer sleeper hit" and "a chance to be part of history." Because the popularity of hobbies continues to skyrocket.
Whether you follow the flights of politicians such as Nancy Pelosi or Alexei Navalny, or pop stars such as Taylor Swift, millions of people have noticed that the little yellow plane icon is an airplane. The Guardian
Pelosi and Aubameyang
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's controversial Taiwan The flight to was the single most tracked flight attime, according to the online tracking site Flightradar24
, which said the flight to Taiwan More than 708,000 people were tracking the flight when it landed in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, and more than 2.9 people were tracking the flight, with 1 million people tracking at least part of the flight.
Flightradar24, started as a passion project by two aviation enthusiasts, claimed in a blog post that the website was experiencing so much traffic that trackers using the network were about to die. A receiver for determining the position and speed of planes.
Some 550,000 viewers tracked the escape of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, 57} Yahoo Finance reported the U.S. Air Force's Global Hawk, which traveled to Ukraine during the Russian invasion, was also heavily tracked.
Flight tracking was in effect during the transfer period. It has also become a popular tool for football fans who want to track the movements of the stars of the world, such as the SportBible which, in 2018, nearly 32,000 Arsenal fans reported that it had tracked Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's private flight from Dortmund to London ahead of the striker's move to the Gunners. Ian Petchenik, head of communications at Flightradar24, told his Guardian.
"The team has a dedicated fan base. They know which flights their favorite players are on and follow them."
Miles Swift flies
This trend has led to some celebrities being criticized for the environmental impact of flights. According to a study earlier this month,Taylor's Swift's Private His jet will fly 170 times from January 1, 2022 until he July 29, with an average flight time of just a few. At 80 minutes and 139.36 miles per flight, we flew 15.9 days.
Sustainability marketing firm Yard claimed that Taylor's total flight emissions for 2022 were calculated at his 8,293.54 tons. did. This is his 1,184.8 times the average person's total annual emissions. But a spokesperson for the pop star dismissed reports that she was the celebrity with the highest private jet emissions as "blatantly false," said The Times. 81}
, but theCelebrity Jets Twitter account automatically tracks certain planes and other celebrities such as Drake, Travis Scott, and Kylie Jenner have criticized the "deep climate crisis." "I am facing criticism for taking a "surprisingly short flight" at the time,said. The Guardian
Backlash Begins
A celebrity has stepped into this kind of attention. Elon Musk offered teenager $5,000 to stop tracking his private jet flights on Twitter account @ElonJet , reported ForbesJack Sweeney that after being increased to $50,000, Musk "haunted him."
The 19-year-old then declared that he was "pretty confident" that he could also track the whereabouts of Meta owner Mark Zuckerberg's private jet, } Inquirer
It has been reported that aviation privacy may be revamped to accommodate this type of accountThe IndependentThe Federal Aviation Administration Although it allows airlines to hide their identities from public disclosure in government data streams, open source sites can still capture public aircraft transponder data.
"Flight stalkers" of figures such as Musk and Zuckerberg "underscore the need to ensure that people do not have to give up their personal security and safety just to fly." '', Dan Hubbard, spokesman for the National Business Aviation Association, told Forbes. } Chinese state media reported in 2021 that the government had confiscated hundreds of receivers used in crowdsourced flight tracking, he added. It raises the danger of "espionage".