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Yes but it does allow people to track the private jets flown by the Chinese government.

• fortuna86 5y ago
  Bingo.
• notahacker 5y ago
  The irony is Flightradar24 accepts requests not to display sensitive aircraft and some of the other ADS-B aggregators don't...
  • bellyfullofbac 5y ago
    But isn't telling a foreign entity "Hey, please censor information of these planes" almost equal to telling the jurisdiction of that entity "Hey, do you want a list of our planes you should pay attention to?". The Chinese government is involved with the big companies there, so they must assume the same is true for the US government and companies...
    • notahacker 5y ago
      Not really. They don't have to state that they're the Chinese government when requesting the data is removed, and I'm sure some of the aircraft already not displayed are very boring aircraft with very boring owners. It's not like the US government doesn't know where these aircraft are already and have an abundance of ways to identify whether they're "of interest" or not