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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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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Tea@programming.dev⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-moves-protect-aircraft-owners-private-information

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  • IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well then…

    As a #SovereignCitizen, I will not comply with FAA drone laws 😏

    Bonus points: Y’all can use an app called Rattlegram to convert a sting of text into audio that can be played over amateur radio. And if you encrypt the text beforehand using encryption tools such as Secure Space Encryptor (known as Paranoia Text Encryption on iOS), or Open PGP (both are open source), before pasting the ciphertext into Rattlegram (also open source), you have encrypted off-grid communications.

    This is #Murica! The president can ignore laws. So can we. 😎

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  • Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Luckily the FAA has no power in europe

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  • tacobellhop@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    These two are the least of out worries now.

    Imagine this law in like 1999

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  • stucljr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s just awesome 😬😬😬😬

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  • WhatSay@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And then when their anonymous airplanes crashed into each other, the world felt conflicted about it.

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    • cute_noker@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Putin loves this simple hack

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    • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh no that would be so sad. Please no.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Paparazzi can become useful by simply being the ones reporting the plane movement as they follow them around in person.

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  • SavageCoconut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I undertands Musk’s, but why do we hate taylor swift now?

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    • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      mostly because shes been promoting what her fans believe, and now she seen as a hypocrite for that. she did. hers a little more complex.

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    • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There 👏 are 👏 no 👏 good 👏 billionaires 👏

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s mostly about how she uses flights. It’s a waste of energy and a big contributor to pollution when they are taking a whole ass jet for about 5 people to go 30 miles.

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      • monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Don’t they also charter their planes when they aren’t being used?

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  • SabinStargem@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I hope a traffic controller guides Elon’s jet into the tarmac.

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    • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      even better, accidentally into trumps airforce one.

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    • Lawnman23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Image

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  • WrenFeathers@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m not sure I’d ever put TS in the same sentence with that Nazi gremlin.

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    • AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      She’s more like Elon than any of us will ever be

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      • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        many people tried to astroturfed she dint come from money,. she literally came from an upper middle class upbringing bordering wealthy. her family moved her to tennessee so she looks “poorer” than she is to her fans.

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    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No. Ethical. Billionaires.

      Every day she wakes up and chooses not to solve homelessness in Tennessee.

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    • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      She still has the carbon footprint of a small country.

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    • 474D@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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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      • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        the joke about her being extremeliy vexatiously litigious around her music too.

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  • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Image

    Appropriate

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  • OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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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    • thefartographer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If not for the billionaires, why do governments exist?

      Huh… Recent context has really ruined jokes like this…

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  • GluWu@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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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    • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Elon now can more easily buy his specialK, lol

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      • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        all that premium cocaine from columbia.

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    • FourWaveforms@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s also for middle class people flying around in single-engine bug smashers

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  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    TBH we’ve been able to keep website registration info private for years, and privacy is such a big thing now, why not.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Precisely.

      I’m no fan of random billionaires, but I’m a huge fan of privacy.

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    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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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      • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        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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      • 0x0@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        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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  • Fingolfinz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Anyone who isn’t rich in America can go fuck yourself is what they’ve been saying for a while in words and actions

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    • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      millionaires are way above middle class, middle class is usually around depending on area, is 100k.year. millionaires are way above that.

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      • falcunculus@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You’re missing their point, they’re saying from the point of view of those in power millionaires are middle class.

        Although there are some that distinguish a “managerial class” that is in-between the middle class and the billionaires : people like CEOs and such, with net worth in the tens of millions but who are not those who benefit the most from the system and are culturally distinct. I think it’s a useful concept personally, as their interests aren’t necessarily the same as the owner class but they still have a lot of political power.

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    • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oddly, millionaires aren’t really the middle class. House’s in California routinely cost more than a million dollars. And a lot of people probably have a million dollars of retirement in one form or another. (Pensions have a value that very often tops a million). The middle class you are describing (athletes and pop stars) probably are more like 100 million or something. We just don’t have a good name for that.

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      • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Bourgeoisie is what they are called. Wealthy people without an aristocratic tile and not part of the ruling class.

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      • xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        What the “middle class” can afford has changed quite a bit in the last few decades. Owning a home is arguably “upper class” at this point. The median US income was only $80k in 2023. Pentions are also getting increasingly rare. What used to be considered middle class is now struggling to get by. Middle class is defined by the income of the middle third of the population, not by a particular lifestyle.

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  • systemglitch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is a good thing for us normal humans. More privacy is always a good thing. Let it spread further…

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    • TheFogan@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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      • systemglitch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This isn’t restricted to billionaires. It will benefit others as well.

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  • revv@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Honestly, I think this will be a bigger boon to folks like Elevated Access than to the billionaires of the world. Makes it a little harder for some chud who doesn’t like what they’re doing to show up at a pilot’s home with a rifle.

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    • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Glad to hear there is a caveat to this

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  • potatopotato@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This doesn’t do anything, all these aircraft are already in trusts.

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    • CodeInvasion@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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      • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Why would you want to hide that information? As long as planes use public skies everyone should be identified. Thats like the very basics of every security operation.

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      • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If you own your own home, anyone can get your full name through property records. Is this really that different?

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      • ChaoticCookie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Can you take me for a ride on your plane?

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  • TheFrogThatFlies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wait! Think about the children! What if we need to track pedophiles!?

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    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The pedophiles are in power, except “real pedophilia is when the gays do it”.

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    • Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You mean Republicans? Yeah they won’t allow that, silly

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    • SinningStromgald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Only poor antifascist trans people are pedophiles dummy. /s

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  • PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    AI can still track these fools. Thanks deepseek.

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    • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t know why you people all think AI has some magical capabilities. Tracking which aircraft is owned by whom isn’t exactly a complex task if you have the raw data of flight movements (needed for ATC and otherwise independently tracked by plane spotters,…) and people movements.

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      • PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F…

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So can guys like Epstein…

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    • Demonic74@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What’s the difference?

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    • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s the same group of people. They’re buddies.

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    • nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And Musk. And Trump.

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