@PoeticLicenseDK @JxckS In the case of flight data, the U.S. public pays for all the flight control towers, runways, traffic controllers, etc. It may be inconvenient for a super rich guy like Musk to have people know where he's landing his luxury jet, but if he flew commercial he could be tracked as well. He could always just ride around in his limo like the impoverished millionaires...

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Can we separate the legitimate needs of the air traffic control system & law enforcement from the public's desire to know the comings & goings of billionairs?

@PoeticLicenseDK @JxckS Not entirely, I don't think. Not saying it's Elon, but if an individual took control of a worldwide communication system along with members of a government hostile to the U.S., then that individual's use of airport infrastructure largely paid for by American taxpayers could conceivably be of public interest beyond law enforcement. I would suggest law enforcement's interests and those of the public at large aren't always the same.