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Re:My plane is not trackable without using non-public data by aaomidi on Friday December 16, 2022 @12:15PM (#34017196)
I’m fine with planes being tracked, I’m not necessarily fine with cars being tracked.

Cars don’t have to broadcast their location to not get blown up by air defense. Planes do. And we’re legally allowed to listen to all wireless frequencies.

Re:My plane is not trackable without using non-public data by looping__lui on Saturday December 17, 2022 @02:10PM (#34031057)
Your argument doesn’t make sense. If tracking plane registrations and making that data publicly available is ok to you - you should also be fine to have your license plate scanned and your movements made publicly available to everyone.

Otherwise you are a hypocrite.

Broadcasting your location to “get avoided being blown up by air defense” is just pure non-sense. Collision avoidance yes, but what country are you living in believing that the military would just shoot down planes from the sky?

Re:My plane is not trackable without using non-public data by aaomidi on Saturday December 17, 2022 @10:06PM (#34034697)
Nearly every country will shoot a plane that’s not identifying itself out of the sky. Especially after 9/11. It’s actually policy in a lot of countries now.

Generally would happen after a visual confirmation though.

Anyway, cars don’t carry the same type of power that planes do. Cars are being tracked in most countries anyway, just that the data isn’t public.

Finally there is nothing stopping you from making a “install this software on your webcams to monitor car locations” is there? If you’re so non hypocritical, go make that software and convince folks to run it, because that’s how airplane tracking happens.

Unless you’re arguing that planes shouldn’t carry radios with them and that countries should be fine with unidentified planes in their air space?

Re:My plane is not trackable without using non-public data by looping__lui on Sunday December 18, 2022 @02:23AM (#34035695)
Yes, I’m absolutely fine with unidentified planes in airspaces. And maybe could you cite how often planes were shot down because “they didn’t carry radios”? Such nonsense.

The data with car movements not being public is exactly the point. I’m certainly not going to start tracking people’s license plates and further accelerate some dystopian society.

And no: license plates aren’t tracked everywhere. EU laws for example are rather strict about that.