The days of tracking celebrity private jets might be coming to an end. A new FAA law could allow private aircraft owners to hide their travel data.
What Happened: President Joe Biden signed the FAA reauthorization into law on May 16. The law includes a section on data privacy that enables private plane owners to request their flight data be withheld from public sites.
The law mandates the FAA to create a system allowing private aircraft owners to fly under a temporary registration number and block identifiable data from public dissemination.
This could significantly reduce the visibility of private jet travels, reported Business Insider.
Private jet owners like Elon Musk and Taylor Swift use federal programs like the Limiting Aircraft Data Displayed (LADD) list and the Privacy ...