Excellent news could also be coming for Elon Musk and different uberwealthy people with personal jets. The FAA reauthorization invoice, which was just lately handed by the Home, could quickly block the general public from studying concerning the flights individuals tackle personal jets, in accordance with Axios. Whereas it might be excellent news within the eyes of the wealthy, it’s dangerous information for everybody else.

The Tesla, SpaceX and X (ugh) CEO has mentioned previously that folks having entry to their flight information can pose a safety danger, however Axios asserts that the data has confirmed to be very helpful for journalists and different researchers. This type of monitoring has at all times been a part of public file, however till on-line flight trackers began taking off (I’m so sorry), it was type of a ache within the ass for most individuals to be taught who owned personal planes and the place they had been going.

The outlet experiences {that a} provision deep contained in the five-year FAA reauthorization invoice would require the company to ascertain a course of that will let jet homeowners request to maintain their planes’ registration numbers and different data personal. That’s lame as hell. The invoice reportedly handed the Home by a 351-69 (good) vote in July, and now it should be reconciled with the Senate earlier than President Biden can signal it.

The outlet experiences that the FAA already has quite a lot of choices for personal homeowners who don’t need these goddamn nosey poor individuals seeing what they’re as much as. One in every of them is utilizing LLCs and different company possession constructions to protect their identities.

Chances are you’ll keep in mind final 12 months when Musk threatened to sue a Twitter person for creating an account that tracked his personal jet’s actions. That by no means actually occurred. Nonetheless, as soon as Musk acquired possession of Twitter, he completely suspended the account, as a result of he isn’t a petty particular person in any respect.

It isn’t all on Musk, although. Loads of extremely rich individuals have their flight data blocked like Donald Trump, Taylor Swift and Kylie Jenner. The FAA has additionally granted over 300 non permanent plane reservation numbers. They permit candidates to fly anonymously by means of a personal plane deal with program.