![]() EuropeįlightRadar24’s website didn’t provide us with any instructions on how to get removed. ![]() It may be legal, but let’s just say that the ethics of this practice are questionable at best. Then it sells elaborate reports telling companies exactly what ALL their competitors’ aircraft are doing at all times. ![]() It simply asks the FAA regularly for a list of all PIA addresses and who they belong to. One company, in particular, sends regular FOIA requests to the FAA in order to sell competitive data to other companies. All of this private data can be had with a simple letter sent to the FAA requesting it, and that’s exactly what people and companies do. It turns out that there’s one big loophole in the PIA program according to Plane and Pilot Magazine: the Freedom of Information Act. A downside of the PIA program is that you have to get a Flight ID at a cost of around £200/year. At the time of writing it wasn’t clear whether the CAA in the UK was adopting the same scheme and I couldn’t find anything on their website. To qualify, the aircraft must be U.S-registered, 1090-MHz ADS-B equipped, and fly in U.S. Those operators will receive an alternative, temporary ICAO aircraft address that is not linked with their FAA registration information. ![]() The Privacy ICAO Address (PIA) Program provides a portal to accept requests from operators seeking to keep their real-time ADS-B position and identification information private. The FAA has now put in place a plan to protect the privacy of operators from real-time flight-tracking services. This is also the problem with the Flight ID service offered by some use flight plan companies. Remember the registration number / ICAO hex code is a public lookup table. But this isn’t much use as they still squawk the ICAO code. In the US, transponders are “UAT” based and can have an anonymous switch whilst squawking 1200 (the equivalent of our 7000) which hides the tail number. We did wonder if there was a setting inside the transponder to anonymous the transmission other than “OFF”. The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA), and members of the General Aviation (GA) community have cited the lack of privacy as a barrier to ADS-B Out adoption. Real-time tracking of the geographic location of a specific aircraft is possible, generating privacy concerns for the aircraft operator community. Perhaps other Helipaddy pilots have wondered about FlightRadar24, Automatic Dependent Surveillance and Broadcast (ADS-B), and all the other flight trackers? ( there are a dozen of them at the time of writing)ĪDS-B Out operates by transmitting the aircraft’s unique ICAO address, making identification by any individual with an ADS-B receiver possible. Flight data are clearly personalized and should be treated as such, following the rules of the GDPR. Crucially, before any data can be processed or stored, the customers (“data subjects”) have to give their consent. The law mandates companies to be more diligent in handling their customers’ personal data. The General Data Protection Regulation became active in 2018 in the whole European Union and the UK. It is only relevant for owners/operators. It’s not an issue for the charter market, because the passengers are not connected in any way to the aircraft registration. I wouldn’t really want to share with the public who I see and where I go in my car and, since I use the heli a bit like a car, I apply the same principle. We recently decided that we didn’t want our every movement tracked by the public, including all the history of our flights, ever. “I wouldn’t really want to share with the public who I see and where I go in my car and, since I use the heli a bit like a car, I apply the same principle.”
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