Taylor Swift Claims Jet-Tracking FL Student Helps Stalkers: Reports

ORLANDO, FL — Grammy-winning singer and songwriters Taylor Swift is taking legal action against a Florida student accused of using public data and social media to track wealthy public figures, including Swift, per media reports.

Both the Washington Post and the Associated Press reported Swift sent a cease-and-desist letter to Jack Sweeney, an information technology junior at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, after accusing Sweeney's tracking system of exposing her location to stalkers.

The Associated Press, which has received a copy of the letter, said Swift argued Sweeney's tracker offers a "roadmap" for people with "violent intentions ... to carry out their plans."

Sweeney told the Associated Press causing harm was not the intent and shared he believes in transparency and public information.

For several years Sweeney has used publicly available data from the Federal Aviation Administration and other sources to log the takeoffs and landings of planes and helicopters owned by billionaires, politicians, Russian oligarchs and other public figures, along with estimates of their planet-warming emissions, The Washington Post reported.

“One should reasonably expect that their jet will be tracked, whether or not I’m the one doing it, as it is public information after all,” Sweeney told the Associated Press.

Swift has had stalkers showing up outside her homes, and one man faces stalking and harassment charges after being arrested last month outside her townhouse in Manhattan.

“While this may be a game to you, or an avenue that you hope will earn you wealth or fame, it is a life-or-death matter for our Client,” Swift's attorney, Katie Wright Morrone, wrote in the letter to Sweeney shared with The Washington Post.

Morrone said there is “no legitimate interest in or public need for this information, other than to stalk, harass, and exert dominion and control.”

Read more via the Associated Press and Washington Post.