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That information is already public, how do you think he gets it?
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.
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.
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.
Source?
I believe it's prohibited under GDPR as well as many local laws.
Finnish law doesn’t apply if you aren’t in Finland.
I don’t live there.
Do you think there shouldn't be any laws prohibiting the sharing of people's personal information like that?
No, I don't think phone books should be illegal.
The websites track the planes not the individuals.
The planes might be flying empty. It has nothing to do with GDPR.
Not when it comes to air traffic.
Is that question really "in good-faith" to "that law doesn't apply in my country"?