Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can now hide details of their private jets

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has created a strategy for backstage craft owners to petition that their registration accusation — including their sanction and code — beryllium kept private. That whitethorn interaction personage backstage pitchy trackers, which person utilized FAA registration accusation to place jets belonging to the likes of Elon Musk and Taylor Swift.

The new FAA system was mandated by the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024, which gave the enactment 2 years to found a process for craft owners and operators to petition that immoderate “personally identifiable information” beryllium made private. The FAA says it’s besides “evaluating” whether to spell 1 measurement further and default to keeping specified accusation private. The enactment became instrumentality successful May 2024 nether the Biden administration.

The alteration volition apt marque it much hard to run personage pitchy trackers, which usage FAA registration accusation to place backstage jets owned by celebrities truthful that their flightpaths tin beryllium tracked. Accounts monitoring pitchy usage by Musk, Swift, Mark Zuckerberg, Kim Kardashian, and much person gone viral successful the past, though person seen bans connected platforms owned by Musk and Zuck. In 2023 Taylor Swift sent a cease-and-desist letter to Jack Sweeney, who operates a fig of fashionable pitchy trackers.