Legislation just signed into law has made it exceedingly to difficult to track private jet activity.

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    6 months ago

    I would bet that every single person commenting here thinks of him- or herself as being deeply invested in privacy, ranting against things like ad tracking, etc. But as soon as someone (or some ones) you don’t like, or have no affinity with, wants to have the same privacy afforded to every single person who drives a car, all bets are off.

    Or are you suggesting that people (including the police!) should be allowed to have real time, constant information about where you drive to every day?

    Just because it’s a plane, and just because it’s a rich person, doesn’t make it any less of a privacy violation.

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      Aren’t all commercial planes currently tracked and have their data open to the public? Why should anyone be exempt except for military?

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      I think most people on Lemmy would agree that private planes simply shouldn’t exist, at least on a personal use level. I don’t actually care at all where these rich bozos are going, but the ability to shame them for their method of travel outweighs any potential privacy concern. Airports are public places, airplanes (were) a matter of public record. If they truly want privacy, they should find an alternative means of conveyance. If they absolutely need to travel incognito, they could just charter a plane, for Pete’s sake.

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      They do have the same privacy afforded to every single person who drives a car. Maybe they should stay in the car, then?

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      there is nothing from us keeping a database and tracking cars like this, It is just not required by law to do this with active updates. I mean with all the cameras in cars (and I am sure their are insurance companies that are looking into putting more AI cameras in cars to track not only your driving [progressive did a massive push on this already] but also those around you) you can just machine learn those plates and pool them in a public area where we can all pull and push info about these drivers. The airways we can still do this with, and we will, they will anon the info, but I am sure it will be an easy thing to overcome.

      Nothing is anonymized for me, wanna know my house address, just look up the name on the internet, it will give you an idea and then just call the local county clerk, they will hand over any details about properties owned by me in that area. Its a matter of public record. My car has an ID on it that is required by law to be shown and not hidden until asked for by the government. Hell all your siblings and children, they are a matter of public record, so I can find out a LOT about you, just by knowing small info about you. (try it, look up an old partner on a search engine, they will give you known addresses for like 20 years.)

      So please dont make this about, they wanna just be as private as you are. I dont have shell companies to hide all my properties onto. I dont get laws that state I can randomize my lic plate on my car. And also least we forget, the police can already have access to your cars real time data, the car companies are selling that info, so is your phone provider.

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      This is actually a really good point and I’m not sure why you’re being down voted for it. I hadn’t thought about it that way

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        Because it’s a false equivalence. Why should they be above the law? Cars and planes are not the same thing in the slightest.

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        It’s a giga-stupid post, barely worth refuting, but private jets are not cars.

        You can track every flight I’ve ever been on, if you know the flight number, or plane ID. Now billionaires have their own special carve out.