Congress still won't stop automakers from selling your driving data to data brokers and insurance companies, but they want to make sure @elonjet.net can't tell you if Elon is flying to Texas.
FYI the specific language (Section 204) that did this and ended up in the final bill was originally proposed by Rep Westerman (R, Arkansas 4th), if you're wondering where it came from www.congress.gov/congressiona...
Most asinine part is the humoring that there is even a security risk here.
The fucking airport is likely the most secure place in any given county in the USA, honestly.
While data brokers are selling tracking data off our cars & cell phones to anyone who can pay, our government's concern & legislation is to protect tracking...private jets. We're headed towards bad things.
What does this even change? the article is light on details.
Based on how ADSBexchange works, I doubt it'll have any impact. Like, I can often see a plane overhead, look up where it came from, and immediately have planespotter photos of it from earlier that same day.
Yeah I don’t see how they can legally stop someone from sharing publicly available info. They are probably just assuming that the individuals who currently do this don’t have the resources to challenge the law in court.
The few senators who care at all about a few privacy issues focus only on state actors even though more widespread damage is caused by private actors. I’m guessing one of them has a better lobby.
That's sad,because what Thiel &Elon did to Gawker and/or others,is aclly successfully kicked in the teeth by AntiSLAPP legislation in the UK.
Sometimes it does really help to learn from other countries,no matter how unique,great & what not one's own is.
(Not telling you, but those legislators)
? How is that? I thought it was easier to sue for defamation in the U.K.? Isn’t there a whole thing with JK Rowling suing and silencing critics there, with lawsuits that wouldn’t survive in the US?
He screamed about that guy because he was going to Doha for the World Cup final and was seen there in the same booth as Kushner at the match. (Argentina won the match 😀)
So if a terrorist hijacks or commandeers one of those private jets, it can't be tracked? Or is that just for us regular poor people who track them using apps?
