Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can now hide details of their private jets/// Private aircraft owners can now ask the FAA to keep their registration information out of the public eye.
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TBH we've been able to keep website registration info private for years, and privacy is such a big thing now, sure why not.
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This is actually most helpful to the little guys that own $20,000 airplanes.
I have a small airplane and it's always bothered me that my name and address are publicly accessible through the FAA registry.
Most pilots I know are careful about photos they publish online showing their tail number printed in large bold letters on either side of the aircraft. This registration number can be entered into websites like flightaware.com and someone is literally two clicks from seeing my full name and home address.
If you own your own home, anyone can get your full name through property records. Is this really that different?
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If you own your own home, anyone can get your full name through property records. Is this really that different?
It is different because you typically need to know the municipality I live in first.
Also the registration allows anyone to track me anytime I fly.
How would you feel if you had a public gps transponder on your car publicly showing who you, where you are, and where you live? Also what if you are required to plaster that registration number on the side of your vehicle in large letters that can be seen from a block away?
It's a massive invasion of personal privacy.
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How about drones? If you don't want all of your information avaible online and don't want remoteid to directly tell anyone and everyone where you live you can request not to do any of that stuff, right? Oh no, this is just for rich people flying in private jets that can transport humans and tons of cargo.
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TBH we've been able to keep website registration info private for years, and privacy is such a big thing now, sure why not.
Aircraft are sort of expensive and they can cause large scale damage to the public. At a certain point, the public has a right to know who a plane belongs to.
If they want privacy, they can reregister their planes to an LLC. Having Congress pass this loophole was just Musk's way of flexing his power over the legislative body.
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It is different because you typically need to know the municipality I live in first.
Also the registration allows anyone to track me anytime I fly.
How would you feel if you had a public gps transponder on your car publicly showing who you, where you are, and where you live? Also what if you are required to plaster that registration number on the side of your vehicle in large letters that can be seen from a block away?
It's a massive invasion of personal privacy.
How would you feel if you had a public gps transponder on your car publicly showing who you, where you are, and where you live?
Buy a new car, you won't be far from that.
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Aircraft are sort of expensive and they can cause large scale damage to the public. At a certain point, the public has a right to know who a plane belongs to.
If they want privacy, they can reregister their planes to an LLC. Having Congress pass this loophole was just Musk's way of flexing his power over the legislative body.
the public has a right to know who a plane belongs to.
Why? This "right to know" is pitchfork mentality, really. If something happens the authorities can handle it and only they should have that kind of access, not John Doe. Not all who own planes are millionaires (those probably do register to an LLC).
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Aircraft are sort of expensive and they can cause large scale damage to the public. At a certain point, the public has a right to know who a plane belongs to.
If they want privacy, they can reregister their planes to an LLC. Having Congress pass this loophole was just Musk's way of flexing his power over the legislative body.
Aircraft are sort of expensive and they can cause large scale damage to the public
Sounds like carefully worded groundwork for abolishing online anonymity. Computers are cheap and can cause large scale damage to the public.
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This is sort of like the depreciation tax benefit for private jets from the Trump tax cuts. I get it, I do, I just don't care for the government offering extra help for the types of people in this scenario. Let them manage with their billions.
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Appropriate
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This is a good thing for us normal humans. More privacy is always a good thing. Let it spread further…
I mean do we have any reason to expect it to travel further? The system made a few billionares feel uncomfortable, now they don't feel uncomfortable, the law isn't going to expand.
If a face tracking or car tracking system were to go live. Billionares would find a way to exempt themselves from it, but make sure it was live for everyone else. The reason there aren't exceptions made for this rule, are because there's not a whole lot of poor private plane owners.
This isn't restricted to billionaires. It will benefit others as well.
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How would you feel if you had a public gps transponder on your car publicly showing who you, where you are, and where you live?
Buy a new car, you won't be far from that.
The new car is worse. They will sell your info to the highest bidder.
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How would you feel if you had a public gps transponder on your car publicly showing who you, where you are, and where you live?
Buy a new car, you won't be far from that.
Buy an old car, travel on public roadways
ALPR
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I’m not sure I’d ever put TS in the same sentence with that Nazi gremlin.
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If you own your own home, anyone can get your full name through property records. Is this really that different?
I was looking up bike lanes in a city I was thinking of buying a house in and the map had property lines on it, with the registered owners names plastered in every space.
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If you own your own home, anyone can get your full name through property records. Is this really that different?
Not really. But the FAA could use some improvement on privacy issues.
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This is sort of like the depreciation tax benefit for private jets from the Trump tax cuts. I get it, I do, I just don't care for the government offering extra help for the types of people in this scenario. Let them manage with their billions.
If not for the billionaires, why do governments exist?
Huh... Recent context has really ruined jokes like this...
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I’m not sure I’d ever put TS in the same sentence with that Nazi gremlin.
She may not be as bad but she's still a billionaire who rides her private jet everywhere on a whim contributing more to climate change than thousands of people will in multiple lifetimes and was included in the Panama Papers.
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I’m not sure I’d ever put TS in the same sentence with that Nazi gremlin.
She still has the carbon footprint of a small country.
