ADS-B information is available publicly, but what's not always available publicly is which aircraft (or rather, which aircraft identifier) belongs to whom.
Specifically, if an aircraft is subscribed to this program, then it receives a new temporary identifier every month, unconnected to the owner:
https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/equipadsb/privacy
And Elon's jet is subscribed to this program, as confirmed by Elon himself: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603803508087537665
So I think the problem is not tracking some airplane, the problem is connecting an airplane identifier to its owner by other means and then publicly broadcasting that information (i.e. make it easily accessible), when its owner has requested the government for privacy protection under a government program which was specifically designed to provide that exact type of privacy protection.
I agree with you, but I think the problem is that if you publish Elon's flying habits with a 24 hour delay, then you're effectively doxxing which airplane is Elon's jet, which would allow anyone to track Elon's jet in real-time for the next month, basically.
This could be somewhat avoided if Elon's jet received a temporary private aircraft identifier for every flight (instead of every month, which is how it works currently [1]).
But even then, if the airplane landed on a small airport (i.e. with few aircraft on the ground), it would still be possible to determine whether an airplane that is taking off is Elon's jet or not, based on the fact that Elon's jet landed there on the previous day and the destination for today's flight is [some place where Elon commonly flies to].
[1] https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/equipadsb/privacy
https://old.reddit.com/r/ElonJetTracker/comments/zofevu/remo...
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>Jet IS LIVE, TOOK OFF from [place], at [time] local time (PST), traveling [direction]. Tail [registration code]
It seems that all flight data of a tail number is public, but the owner of said plane is private information. Is it correct?
Except it isn't. Elon's jet has been subscribed to this program for months:
https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/equipadsb/privacy
This was confirmed by Elon himself: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603803508087537665
So if Elon's aircraft identifier was meant to be publicly accessible even though he is using that program, why does this privacy program exist in the first place?
I think it’s interesting to see somebody who thought content moderation was a simple problem realise that content moderation is actually an incredibly difficult and, in some ways, unsolvable problem. However it risks becoming a dominant conversation when there are plenty of other good conversations to have.
Some people cannot sleep at night withour looking in other's people shit.
verb: doxx
search for and publish private or identifying information about (a particular individual) on the internet, typically with malicious intent.
(This isn't to defended Musk, quite the contrary given he tweeted a number plate).
What I’ve since learned however is that tracking his jet requires a combination of public and private information. He’s part of a privacy scheme which routinely changes the plane’s identifier: https://mobile.twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/160385752457453...
At that point, I think the argument that it’s doxxing is justified to some extent.
It is publicly available information.
Virtually all doxxing is derived from public records.
What’s public is how each plane moves. What’s not is which one of these planes is Musk’s.
