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College Student Uses Public Data to Track Florida Governor's Jet

  • Jack Sweeney, a college student, created a Twitter account to track Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' official state jet using publicly available flight data.
  • Sweeney plans to track DeSantis' other private flights and has tracker accounts for politicians, tech executives, and celebrities.
  • DeSantis signed a law making his travel records secret, but Sweeney's tracker uses public data to follow DeSantis' jet.
  • Sweeney previously had a tracker account banned for following Elon Musk's jet.
  • DeSantis is seen as a possible 2024 presidential candidate and plans to launch his campaign in a chat with Musk.
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