• seathru@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    1 month ago

    They still have to run ADS-B transponders. This just makes it harder to link the person to the plane.

  • mombutt_long_and_low@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I don’t know whether to laugh or scream at how outrageous it is that out of all the issues that could benefit from bipartisan cooperation, THIS is what we get. Bunch of turds.

  • athos77@kbin.social
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    1 month ago

    This isn’t really about Swift. It’s about Elon Musk, and Clarence Thomas, and Donald Trump, and all the other corrupt narcissists who don’t want you to know what they’re up to.

  • firecat@kbin.social
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    1 month ago

    Too late, everyone jets had been tag and last known location will still reveal who they are. Useless bill as always.

  • ghostblackout@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Ok I’m just going to make a open source project to track that’s jets adsb Signal and let people put a reserve at there house oh wait that’s just flight 24 it doesn’t matter what law makers do she can always be tracked by 1 person with a sdr and a antenna

    • AnActOfCreation@programming.dev
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      1 month ago

      Will that work even if the plane registration is private/anonymized? Sure you can know where every plane is, but can you know whose it is?

      • ME5SENGER_24@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        The only action people have is to vote people in power who are not absolute pieces of shit.

        What they do once in office should directly affect your choice during the next election cycle.

        Unfortunately most people vote blindly along their party lines.

        So, yes, you’re right. It’s all talk here but it’s not like that talk can’t lead to actions.

        • Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee
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          1 month ago

          Since the system is fixed, we don’t even really have the option to vote people in who are not absolute pieces of shit

        • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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          1 month ago

          But is that the only action people could take? What if some of these private jets just happened to catch fire in the middle of the night when no one is around?

        • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 month ago

          That’s not the only action people have. It’s just the only one that hasn’t been criminalized yet.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    But then how will we know when she takes her private jet jet jet to her private jet jet to her to her private jet?

  • cm0002@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    billionaires get this sort of data privacy amendment, while regular Americans get surveillance capitalism as usual.

    Well to be entirely fair, the amendment just says "private plane registration, so this should apply to billionaire jets but also down to the dinky weekend 1971 Cessna that a “regular American” owns

    ETA: actually now that I think about it, drones above a certain dinky threshold also require registration, so those would be covered as well I’d think

    • Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.ee
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      1 month ago

      drones above a certain dinky threshold also require registration

      Basically 0 chance that this law applies to RC helicopters/planes/multirotors. They don’t contain GPS and they aren’t monitored by air traffic controllers.

      The newer regs boil down to you basically have to write your ID number in the canopy and avoid restricted airspaces… and who the hell is gonna roll by and check that you have a number written in your canopy? Maybe cops that get a complaint, and that is pretty rare. The older guys who have been in the hobby that I know completely ignore the newer regs, if you aren’t bothering anybody then nobody cares.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      I’m guessing the owner of a dinky 1971 Cessna most likely doesn’t care if they can be found on an FAA tracker website. Taylor Swift and Elon Musk, on the other hand…

      • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 month ago

        That Cessna owner also isn’t as likely to be a target of violence from some fanatic (arguably justified or not).

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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          1 month ago

          Cool. Is there one shred of evidence beyond Elon’s spurious claim that has ever happened?

          Because if you are famous enough to worry about that and rich enough to fly around in a private jet and that worries you, hire security.

            • cm0002@lemmy.world
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              1 month ago

              There hasn’t been a successful attempt in 60 years since JFK, who insisted on terrible security practices (open roof vehicle) and some failings on the secret service. Since then theyve really tightened everything up.

              With proper procedures and a competent team, they’ll be fine.

                • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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                  1 month ago

                  Except that dude that just walked into the front door of the white house that one time… I’d say that guy got pretty close.

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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              1 month ago

              Taylor Swift has been dealing with stalkers showing up at the airport for years

              Can you show evidence of this? Because all I see when I search for Taylor Swift, airport and stalker are people watching her plane’s location online.

              It also doesn’t make much sense to me. She wouldn’t be walking through the regular airport if she was flying in a private jet.

              • andrewta@lemmy.world
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                1 month ago

                The plane has to land at some point. That is done at an airport. Not sure how that’s confusing. Yeah so it’s smaller air field. Not having crazy stalkers track her is a good thing.

                Because she’s rich she isn’t allowed any privacy or safety?

                • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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                  1 month ago

                  The confusing part is how these crazy stalkers (still haven’t shown that these people exist) get into the private area of the airport reserved for people who have private jets and chartered flights.

  • MeanEYE@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    So… so… so… soooooo… many problems in this world and this is what they rush to “fix”. Wanna bet someone is going to figure out how to tie plane registration numbers with people regardless, do it through some third-world country who doesn’t give a shit about USA and we are back to square one.

    • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 month ago

      How do you want to do that “through some third world country” if the registration documents are in the US and only anonymously published anymore? Not following your logic there.

  • matlag@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    At last constant surveillance is deemed a problem, which is why ultra-rich have their privacy protected, while you, peons, keep being monitored.

  • maynarkh@feddit.nl
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    1 month ago

    At least the priorities are in the right place. Abortion rights have not been acted on for a century, climate change is hard, Ukraine can’t be helped, but the fundamental right for everyone to use their private jet anonymously has been protected.