Celebrities like Taylor Swift have long used a little-known Federal Aviation Administration program to shield their private jets’ flight records from public view. Now ICE is using the program to hide information about its deportation flights.

Celebrities like Taylor Swift have long used a little-known Federal Aviation Administration program to shield their private jets’ flight records from public view. Now ICE is using the program to hide information about its deportation flights.

  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    FAA’s Limiting Aircraft Data Displayed list — LADD — a specialized program developed by the private jet lobby decades ago to keep aircraft data off of public aggregator sites like FlightAware.

    In case you don’t want to read 4 pages of clickbaity “little known program” speak to find the name.

    Jacobin must pay writers by the word.