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Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Private Jets (gizmodo.com)

submitted 7 months ago by pelespirit to c/politics

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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. President Joe Biden signed the FAA bill into law on May 16th, after it passed in the Senate 88-4 and the House 387 to 26.

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. That registry has been public until now, allowing for those data points to be combined with open radar mapping to understand where and when certain planes were traveling. It’s through this public information that online enthusiasts have been able to track the jet activity of America’s 1 percent.

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[–] julietOscarEcho 4 points 6 months ago

America's 1%! Lol, just a couple of orders of magnitude off there. It's pretty unhelpful to lump billionaires in with the mass affluent, it's a totally different level of excess.

[–] Titou 1 points 6 months ago

Democrats and republicans are just the 2 sides of the same coin