Taylor Swift has threatened legal action against university student Jack Sweeney, who has tracked his private jet trips over the internet as he has done with other public figures such as billionaire Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates.

The lawyers of the singer, who made history last Sunday upon winning his fourth Grammy Award for best album of the year, They sent a “cease and desist” letter to Sweeney as a first step to arrest him before filing a lawsuit for harassment and threats to public safety, according to the letter.

Sweeney, who learned to track airplanes from his father, an airline operations controller, uses, among other data, public information from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and even performs carbon emissions calculations of each flight it tracks to show how much it pollutes.

Musk, owner of the X platform, had already sanctioned the Florida university student who manages social media accounts that track flights canceling one of your accounts in 2022 on that network: @ElonJet.

A letter from last December from Swift’s attorneys accuses the student of charges related to “stalking and harassing behavior, including the constant posting of accurate, real-time information about our client’s location and future whereabouts to the public on social media.” social”.

According to CNN, the lawyers’ letter refers to a report from that channel about Musk offering the University of Central Florida student $5,000 to delete the account of Twitter that tracks his plane.

The young programmer, who is in his twenties, rejected this offer at the time and asked for $50,000, saying he could use the money to pay for college or perhaps buy a Tesla. The student told CNN that He never intended to cause harm with his actions.and noted that it is collecting “public information.”