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wutwutwutwut | 3 years ago

I wouldn't know. The person I replied to claimed that it was "private information of individuals". If it's public info by law then referring to it as private seems very misleading, wouldn't you say?

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wizeman|3 years ago

> If it's public info by law then referring to it as private seems very misleading, wouldn't you say?

But it's not public information by law. It's private information:

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/equipadsb/privacy

The aircraft tracking data itself is public, but what's not public is the information which links the temporary aircraft identifier to its owner when the owner is using that privacy program, which is the case for Elon: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603803508087537665

wutwutwutwut|3 years ago

Do you have a source which isn't Elon Musk? Using Musk as a source for claims in this seems a bit silly to me.