Wall of Shame · No. 1
Mark Zuckerberg
Chairman & CEO, Meta Platforms, Inc.
He runs the company that removed my accounts for republishing public radio broadcasts. Below: his two Gulfstreams and his 118-metre Feadship, tracked live from those same public broadcasts — and the filed public record of how Meta has handled everyone else’s data.
The operator’s own account
He banned my accounts.
Meta removed my Instagram account at 3,500 followers and my Threads account at 3,800 followers. Both were used to publish the same thing this site publishes: aircraft positions broadcast in the clear over unencrypted ADS-B, which anyone with a $30 software-defined radio can receive.
- 3,500
- followers, removed
- Threads
- 3,800
- followers, removed
Precedent · October 2024
In October 2024 Meta removed Jack Sweeney's jet-tracking accounts across Instagram, Threads and Facebook, citing a "risk of physical harm". Sweeney was republishing the same public ADS-B broadcasts.
His company monetises your personal data. It was fined $5 billion for misleading you about the controls on it, and paid $1.4 billion for collecting faces without consent.
It will not tolerate one of its founder's hundred-million-dollar assets being pointed at in public — using a radio signal the aircraft broadcasts to everyone, unencrypted, by law.
He has a permanent place on this wall. No expiry, no rotation, on every page of this site for as long as it exists.
Where they are right now
Every position below carries the age of its last fix. That is not a hedge, it is the fact: a coordinate nobody has heard in a month is a history, not a location.
Quadrant 1 · The jets
Quadrant 2 · The yacht
Launchpad
118m (387ft) Feadship, 2024 · $300M
Under way · 221° heading
27.065°N 132.789°E
Last AIS fix 4 hours ago
Designed by Espen Øino. Travels with Wingman, a 67m Damen Yachting support vessel carrying the tenders, the toys and the extra crew.
Vessel profile on CelebyachtsCelebyachts on AIS coverage: 'dark' means no AIS signal is reaching us. It is a fact about receiver coverage, not about the vessel.
Don't believe me
Here are the documents.
Filed cases and regulator orders, linked to the courts and agencies that published them.
These are filed matters concerning Meta's data handling and product design. None of them concerns this site or the account removals described above — they are here as the public record of how the company treats other people's data, which is the contrast being drawn.
01 · U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
State attorneys general v. Meta Platforms — youth mental health / under-13 data collection
Filed October 24, 2023
A bipartisan coalition of attorneys general alleged Meta designed Instagram and Facebook to addict minors, collected data on children under 13 in violation of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, and misrepresented the safety of both products to users and parents.
Status: Proposed $17B settlement with a 51-attorney-general coalition announced 2026; the largest consumer-protection settlement ever obtained by state AGs.
02 · U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
In re: Social Media Adolescent Addiction / Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation
MDL No. 3047 · No. 4:22-md-03047 (Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers)
Filed Consolidated October 6, 2022
Consolidated personal-injury, school-district and state claims against Meta, Google/YouTube, ByteDance/TikTok and Snap, alleging the platforms were designed to maximise engagement in ways that foreseeably harmed adolescents. The full docket is public.
Status: Active multidistrict litigation; roughly 2,900 cases pending as of mid-2026. The first state-AG bellwether reached a jury in August 2026.
03 · U.S. Federal Trade Commission / U.S. District Court, District of Columbia
FTC — $5 billion penalty and privacy order against Facebook
FTC File No. 182-3109 · 2012 order modified 2020
Filed July 24, 2019
The FTC found that Facebook had violated its 2012 privacy order by deceiving users about their ability to control the privacy of their own personal information. This is the Cambridge-Analytica-era order, and it is the single clearest official finding on the record about how the company handled user data.
Status: Settled. $5B civil penalty — at the time roughly twenty times the largest privacy penalty ever imposed — plus a board-level privacy restructuring and ongoing compliance obligations.
04 · State of Texas
State of Texas v. Meta Platforms — biometric identifiers (CUBI Act)
Settled by agreed final judgment, Texas District Court
Filed Settlement announced July 30, 2024
Texas alleged Meta captured and stored the facial-geometry data of millions of Texans without the consent CUBI requires, via the "Tag Suggestions" feature introduced in 2011. Billions of biometric identifiers, collected from photographs users uploaded of themselves and each other.
Status: Settled for $1.4B payable over five years — the largest settlement ever obtained by a single state, and the first action ever brought under the Texas CUBI Act.
05 · U.S. District Court, District of Columbia
Federal Trade Commission v. Meta Platforms, Inc. — monopolization
No. 1:20-cv-03590-JEB (Judge James E. Boasberg)
Filed December 8, 2020
The FTC, joined by 46 states, sought to unwind the Instagram and WhatsApp acquisitions, alleging a buy-or-bury strategy against emerging competitors. Years of internal documents were entered into the public record before Meta prevailed at trial.
Status: Decided in Meta's favour. On November 18, 2025 the court held that the FTC had not proved Meta holds monopoly power in personal social networking. Included here because the docket is the most complete public record of how Instagram and WhatsApp were acquired — not because a court agreed with the FTC. It did not.
Questions
- Why is Mark Zuckerberg on the Wall of Shame?
- Because Meta removed this site operator's Instagram account at 3,500 followers and Threads account at 3,800 followers for publishing aircraft positions, and because Meta had already removed the best-known jet-tracking accounts on its platforms in October 2024 for the same stated reason. The positions in question are unencrypted ADS-B broadcasts that any receiver within range can decode. This page is the operator's account of that, published alongside the public legal record on how Meta handles other people's data.
- Is tracking a private jet or a superyacht legal?
- Yes. ADS-B Out is mandated by the FAA for most controlled airspace and is unencrypted by design so that other aircraft and air-traffic control can use it. AIS works the same way at sea and is mandated by SOLAS for vessels over 300 gross tonnes. Republishing information that is already broadcast in the clear is protected speech in the United States and most other jurisdictions. See the methodology page for the full answer.
- Which aircraft does Mark Zuckerberg fly?
- Two Gulfstreams held through A7P Trust Co Inc and operated by Solairus Aviation: N68885, a Gulfstream G650ER, and N3880, a Gulfstream G700 delivered in December 2024. Both wear a Meta blue-and-white livery. Both are tracked live on this page from their ADS-B broadcasts.
- What yacht does Mark Zuckerberg own?
- Launchpad, a 118-metre (387ft) Feadship delivered in 2024 and designed by Espen Øino, acquired for a reported $300M. She travels with a 67m Damen Yachting support vessel named Wingman. Her AIS position comes from celebyachts.com, and it is shown with the age of the fix attached — a position nobody has heard in a month is not a location.
- Do the court documents on this page relate to the account bans?
- No, and the page says so where they are listed. The filings collected here concern Meta's data handling and product design: the FTC's $5 billion privacy penalty, Texas's $1.4 billion biometric settlement, the adolescent-addiction multidistrict litigation, and the state attorneys general case. They are the public record of how the company treats other people's information, which is the contrast being drawn. They are not rulings about this site, and one of them — the FTC monopolization case — Meta won outright.
- How current are the positions shown here?
- Aircraft positions refresh roughly every 30 seconds from the tracker's own feed and each one is labelled with the age of its last fix. Yacht positions come from AIS via celebyachts.com and can be much older, because offshore AIS coverage is patchy; any fix older than 30 days is suppressed entirely rather than presented as a current location. Where a fix is missing the page says so instead of guessing.
Positions on this page come from unencrypted ADS-B and AIS broadcasts aggregated by third-party receiver networks, and are published with the age of each fix attached. The first-person account of the account removals is the site operator’s own. Passages marked Opinion are comment, not statements of fact. The filings listed above are linked to their primary sources so you can read them rather than take our word for any of it. See methodology and disclaimer.