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The available flight information does not identify anyone.

I can go on one of those websites, see all those flights, but I have no idea who they belong to or who's on board.

That changes once someone specifically links a private jet to someone.

Within the EU I'd be interested in the ramifications with regards to the GDPR.



none whatsoever.

the linking is done simply by looking up who the plane is registered to, and that is also public information.

you can of course always go the other way, look who owns a plane, and the go to flight information from there.

there is nothing private about any of the information used in the process.


> none whatsoever

I would ponder the GDPR's definition of personal data before making such definitive claim.


The GDPR only applies to businesses, not individuals. So, clearly in this case it does not apply at all since the person behind @ElonJet is acting in an individual capacity.

https://dataprivacymanager.net/who-does-the-eu-gdpr-apply-to...


> The GDPR only applies to businesses, not individuals.

That's not true.


"The GDPR only applies to businesses"

No.


The GDPR applies to everyone, except "by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity", member states and some authorities.


This all plays out in the USA.


Understood but irrelevant to my point/question.




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