Taylor Swift, who famously sang, “My child is fly like a jet stream,” threatened authorized motion in opposition to Jack Sweeney, the Florida school scholar who runs social media accounts devoted to monitoring celebrities’ non-public jet actions, in response to The Washington Put up.

Sweeney makes use of publicly accessible knowledge from the Federal Aviation Administration to trace the non-public jet use of a whole lot of celebrities, politicians, billionaires, and different public figures. He makes the knowledge broadly accessible by posting on accounts throughout social media platforms like X / Twitter.

Swift’s authorized workforce despatched the College of Central Florida sophomore a cease-and-desist final December, asserting that she would “haven’t any alternative however to pursue any and all authorized treatments” if he didn’t cease his “stalking and harassing conduct.” The letter additionally claimed that Sweeney’s accounts brought on the pop star and her household “direct and irreparable hurt, in addition to emotional and bodily misery.” Sweeney shared the letter with The Washington Put up.

Within the letter, Swift’s lawyer, Katie Wright Morrone, went on to put in writing that there’s “no reliable curiosity in or public want for this data, aside from to stalk, harass, and exert dominion and management.” The cease-and-desist arrived on the identical time Swift was below hearth for topping a listing of celebrities whose jets emitted essentially the most CO2 emissions. Fb and Instagram disabled Sweeney’s accounts devoted to Swift final December.

Previously couple of weeks, there’s been heightened curiosity in Swift’s actions as followers speculate whether or not she’ll make it to the Tremendous Bowl on Feb. 11 after her live performance in Tokyo the night time earlier than.

This is not the primary time Sweeney has come below hearth. In 2022, after Elon Musk slid into Sweeney’s DMs to get him to take away his X / Twitter bot devoted to monitoring Musk’s jet @ElonJet, the platform banned him and his accounts. Now, his posts monitoring each Musk and Swift’s jets are revealed on X / Twitter with a 24-hour delay to abide by their ban on real-time location monitoring. Nevertheless, Sweeney nonetheless posts real-time monitoring on Swift’s jet on different platforms.

In the meantime, followers are hoping that Swift will take authorized motion in opposition to a extra urgent problem: deepfakes.