The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has created a system for personal plane homeowners to request that their registration data — together with their identify and handle — be stored personal. That could influence movie star personal jet trackers, which have used FAA registration data to determine jets belonging to the likes of Elon Musk and Taylor Swift.
The new FAA system was mandated by the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024, which gave the group two years to determine a process for plane homeowners and operators to request that any “personally identifiable data” be made personal. The FAA says it’s additionally “evaluating” whether or not to go one step additional and default to protecting such data personal. The act turned regulation in May 2024 underneath the Biden administration.
The change will possible make it tougher to function movie star jet trackers, which use FAA registration data to determine personal jets owned by celebrities in order that their flightpaths could be tracked. Accounts monitoring jet use by Musk, Swift, Mark Zuckerberg, Kim Kardashian, and extra have gone viral previously, although have seen bans on platforms owned by Musk and Zuck. In 2023 Taylor Swift despatched a cease-and-desist letter to Jack Sweeney, who operates various widespread jet trackers.
