So you can still track them, because all flight plans are public and need to be for safety reasons, but they no longer have to tell you who owns what tail number.
I feel like that has a little bit to do with how journalists tracked down a bunch of FBI she’ll companies that operated spy planes over BLM(and other) protests.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Why use spy planes? Why not just use police helicopters? Police helicopters are a normal sight above any large scale demonstration
piccolo@ani.social 4 weeks ago
Or these days, a cheap drones.
aidan@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I have no clue, some claim its because they’re illegally using Stingrays(cell interceptors)
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Basically everything is encrypted, they won’t be that useful. Maybe could perhaps identify who is there though? But depends
aidan@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
SMS(text messages) is not encrypted, and LTE phone calls have gaps