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12-18-2019 11:49 AM |
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Originally Posted by Kyle Boatright
(Post 1393520)
The reality (alternately, MY reality) is that I value privacy and see no need for the 7 (?) billion people on earth to know where my airplane is at any given time. Certainly, ATC has a need to know, but beyond that, I only see downsides to that information being public. I can come up with dozens of scenarios (and I guarantee some will come to fruition) where the information can and will be used for less than beneficial purposes.
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As much of a problem of ADS-B data being public is that it's linked to open, publicly-accessible registration databases. Any fool with an internet connection can look up an airplane, see who owns it and where they live. From that it's pretty simple to get up to all manner of misdeeds. On the mild end, imagine someone who despises "those ****ed little airplanes" and uses a tracking website to pick out airplanes flying near their house, then sends threatening letters to the owners and makes reports to the FAA of reckless flying.
Imagine for a moment what havoc would descend on society if cars were equipped with always-broadcasting transponders, visible to anyone on the internet, and anybody could look up your home address and driver's license information just off your license plate. Someone decides to take "revenge" for you cutting them off, someone decides to stalk you (or a family member) with real-time location data, extortion/blackmail/etc...
This sort of thing going on even before widespread GPS and internet led to the Driver's Privacy Protection Act:
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The DPPA was passed in reaction to the a series of abuses of drivers' personal information held by government. The 1989 death of actress Rebecca Schaeffer was a prominent example of such abuse. In that case, a private investigator, hired by an obsessed fan, was able to obtain Rebecca Schaeffer's address through her California motor vehicle record. The fan used her address information to stalk and to kill her. Other incidents cited by Congress included a ring of Iowa home robbers who targeted victims by writing down the license plates of expensive cars and obtaining home address information from the State's department of motor vehicles.
Senator Barbara Boxer, who sponsored 103 S. 1589, a version of the DPPA, cited other examples where stalkers were able to find victims by simply visiting a DMV. She argued that in "34 States, someone [could] walk into a State Motor Vehicle Department with your license plate number and a few dollars and walk out with your name and home address." Senator Boxer also said:
"In Tempe, AZ, a woman was murdered by a man who had obtained her home address from that State's DMV.
And, in California, a 31-year-old man copied down the license plate numbers of five women in their early twenties, obtained their home address from the DMV and then sent them threatening letters at home.
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It bothers me that there's no true anonymous option on a 1090 system. It bothers me more that all this information is published openly. It's one thing to show "here's where airplanes are" and identify public air carrier flights, but private flights should be anonymized and the registration data should be need-to-know only. Of course, even if all that changed tonight, it would be years (decades?) before all that data turned over.
I'm looking into an LLC for registration simply to hide my personal information, not for liability purposes. Anyone know of a 978 solution that plays well with Dynon? Or a 978 box with built-in Mode C (i.e. not requiring a separate box)?
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