Frederic Bouvier wrote: > Selon "Curtis L. Olson": > >> Frederic Bouvier wrote: >>> Quoting Vassilii Khachaturov : >>> >>> >>>>> It looks like a breach of individual's privacy to me. You can track >>>>> people's travel ( owner names are apparent ) and I doubt it would be >>>>> permitted this side of the Atlantic. >>>>> >>>> in this particular case the FAA tail number registry gives a charter >>>> company flying exec jets. No client names disclosed. >>>> >>> Not true when people are flying their own plane. Here a counter example : >>> http://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N555CA >>> >>> And don't tell me a PA28 is an airliner ;-) >> I think there is some gray area here. When you drive your car, you post >> your license plate # in plain and easy view both front and back. An >> airplane will also have it's registration number prominently displayed >> for all to see, and you need to transmit your identity and location in >> order for ATC to track you and maintain the safety of everyone in the >> airspace. >> >> When you enter the airspace (or the roadways) you give up some of your >> privacy and freedoms and agree to play by a common set of rules ... >> usually for the sake of safety, or the environment, or justified for >> some greater common good. > > As far as I know, there is no mean for the public, to link a plate # to a > owner's name. It is illegal here. > >> I don't know what the correct answer is for this particular case, and >> being able to go back and lookup a complete history of a private pilot's >> travels (start, destination, times, dates, etc.) seems like it could be >> a little over the line. >> >> The ability of computers to collect and index and sort and preserve >> massive amounts of public information creates definite privacy issues. >> Where as before you were protected by being a needle in a haystack and >> an observer has to watch you fly over to get any public data on you, now >> anyone can specifically lookup all public data about your flights, and >> the sum of that public data might be infringing on your privacy rights. >> Interesting debate. :-) >> >> The gov't could track how well you hold your heading, altitude, and >> speed, and revoke the licenses of the bottom 10% every year ... there's >> all kinds of fun stuff you could do with this data. :-) > > It is normal that public agencies ( police dept, justice, Aviation authorities > ... ) can make a link between tail or plate # and identities, just to enforce > regulations and play their role, as long as they don't make 'Big Brother Is > Watching You' their creed. My concern is that Joe Public is able to get this > kind of informations. >
In most states in th US car registrations are public information. Where they are not, a private investigator can usually get them anyway. Josh ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
