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0 pointsshkkmo3y ago0 comments

The data isn't publicly available from the government because the plane is on the LADD list https://laddlist.com/aircraft/N628ts

Thus the only public source is from the company ADSBExchange because it uses croudsourced data.

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meepmorp3y ago· 1 in thread

The data are broadcast from the plane itself, though, for the explicit purpose of allowing the plane's location to be known. That's definitely public data.

shkkmoOP3y ago

Your face, license plate, IP address, etc are all also "public data" in the same sense. When you have large scale aggregation and dissemination of this data that still can create grave privacy and safety concerns.

I strongly believe that aggregation of many types of this sort of data should be made illegal by privacy laws.

I am less sure if those laws should cover flight location data, but it seems like a discussion worth having. We need to weigh the privacy and safety loss against the transparency gains.

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