Legislation just signed into law has made it exceedingly to difficult to track private jet activity.
This is going to help bring down everyday prices, stop Genocide and will ensure another Epstein type billionaire who privately flies people to his pedophile island will receive swift Justice!
Tracking of any wealthy person by terrorists could become a huge potential problem.
Good?
As opposed to terrorist tracking regular citizens, like when they showered an outdoor Las Vegas show with bullets?
Tracking of a normal person by their stalker, preditor, or attacker, is just a normal problem?
For who?
You misspelled solution.
So congress does actually work?
Of course they do, just not for you
Right, they did it for Taylor Swift.
It definitely had nothing to do with Elon Musk or Ken Griffin. Definitely not.
Just at a glance I’d say it had absolutely nothing to do with swift, just a false flag operation to announce the change and ignore the reason. Now we just need a hero to find a workaround.
I honestly believe that people are tracking Swift’s jet just to make the Elon trackers seem ridiculous. Like, who gives a shit where she’s going? Swifties and… literally nobody else is affected.
Dammit, I guess we can’t complain anymore about how much fuel they waste every day, so we are fine. Oh wait, no they are still pieces of shit.
Congress is working on issues that matter to the American people.
Like making sure the wealthy are even less accountable.
Its the Tragedy of the Commons. No single individual really has an incentive to stop flying, outside of the marginal impact on PR. So everyone just says its someone else’s problem.
The FAA is toothless. The EPA is toothless. The individual industry leaders are more legally beholden to shareholders than any regulatory body. Even in aggregate, the emission volume of flights pale beside the emissions caused by coal stacks and automotive emissions and bunker fuel from bulk cargo shipping, so its the billionaire equivalent of saying “At least I’m recycling” when pushed about what you’re doing to curb greenhouse gases.
At the end of the day, what we need is a comprehensive investment in high speed mass transit. But fossil fuel companies hate that. Aeronautics companies hate that. Politicians fixated on quarterly budget figures hate that. And the folks that would actually build rail in this country no longer exist.
So whatchagonna do? Shrug, blame “the system”, and go with the flow because everyone else is doing it.
As much as I say fuck the billionaires, they have actually already had methods of doing this for about 50 years. Only the dumb billionaires who registered the planes in their name were annoyed about the rules. They could have always registered it under a trust, like almost every other rich person private jet out there. People can still figure out the plane tail registration and track you through that, and that will never change. So the billionaires that are happy about this regulation change still have their tail numbers known by the public to be associated with them and can still be tracked. Now they just have to change their tail numbers (giant pain) and wait for people to do slightly more difficult digging to figure out what plane is theirs.
I hope this does not negatively impact the spotter community and ADS-B feeds.
does this actually anonymize it or just give the jet a tracking number?
You will still be able to track jets by their transponder. Planes are required to broadcast their location at all times.
What has changed is if there is a name attached to that transponder. This lets the owners of private planes can now have the FFA remove their name from the public record.
FFA - Future Farmers of America.
That is what I get for having an ag background and then switching to planes.
Unfortunately, this will also make aviation safety analysis more difficult for us.
The plane crash we don’t hear about is one we don’t worry about. Good news for the aviation industry.
Yeah well figuring out who owns what jet will bearginally harder. Like with metadata if you have a few data points it will be easy to figure out who owns what plane. And it is not like these people don’t travel much so the data points will Stack up fast.
Bipartisan support for this bill but remember to vote blue no matter who 🤡
You don’t vote FOR people, you vote AGAINST people. That’s how America is set up.
So it’s more like “vote against red or your gay friends are dead”
The other fella literally did an insurrection against the country and stole boxes of classified documents.
Remember to vote for the option that doesn’t lead to fascism*
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Celebrities and billionaires have long complained that it’s just way too easy for random people on the internet to monitor how much fuel exhaust they waste as they flit through the skies via their private jets.
An amendment in the Federal Aviation Administration re-authorization bill that was passed last week will allow private aircraft owners to anonymize their registration information.
Jet tracking has been made possible up until this point because private plane owners were forced to register aircraft ownership information with the FAA civil registry.
The Warzone originally reported that the new FAA reauthorization bill, which was introduced last June, will effectively make it impossible (or, at the very least, very, very hard) to track the jet activity of the well-to-do.
That’s a bummer, since in an age of environmental concerns, it’s been helpful to know which members of America’s gilded class are spewing jet fuel into the atmosphere.
Elon Musk famously threatened to sue Jack Sweeney, an undergraduate at the University of Florida, after the student made a Twitter account that tracked the billionaire’s private jet activity, ElonJet, in 2020.
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So when her plane goes missing, we’ll all treat her like Amelia Earhart. She doesn’t fly her own plane though; not quite Amelia.
So if the only thing hidden is the airplanes ID seems like it would still be relatively easy to have a program sift through the data.2
Yeah all we need is to track which private plane specifically went on the exact pattern of her tours
Probably the oligarchs, based in this law, can use their lawyers to sue the person who dares to do so publicly.
Depends on how the law is written. If there is language against deanonymizing the now anonymous data? Yeah, they’ll get Jacks ass. But if not, there’s really not much they can do.
