2 ms·
It's an interesting conundrum. As someone who believes in rights, the problem here seems to be neither with elon's expectation of privacy nor with elonsjet's ex
by bmelton 4y ago
It's an interesting conundrum. As someone who believes in rights, the problem here seems to be neither with elon's expectation of privacy nor with elonsjet's expectation of free speech, but in the requirement of having to report his plane's ADS-B realtime output to a public system.
It doesn't seem impractical that the government needs that data to operate effectively, but to require that a person (or plane) broadcast their information to a registry that is public seems to be the crux of the issue here.
- CydeWeys 4y agoIt's not only the government that needs that data, it's other pilots. These transponders are used to prevent in-air collisions between planes. That's not a centralized system; it's peer-to-peer. Your plane has antennas that are directly receiving these signals and ensuring that no other plane is too close, or on a collision course. These signals are also read by ground-based antennas for similar purposes (and also by avgeeks who want to collate the data, e.g.: https://www.flightradar24.com/add-coverage https://www.flightradar24.com/add-coverage ). The system fundamentally doesn't work if you try to make it non-public. The end result might end up being more privacy for Elon's jet, sure, but also way more mid-air collisions, as it would no longer be able to serve its function of letting a plane tell other planes where it is.
- bmelton 4y agoA very good point that embarrassingly highlights my lack of knowledge about it. Thank you for the correction. I suppose a decent, easy system for evading its tracking would just be for rich people to swap keys to their private jets. Or chartering. Or flying commercial. Etc.