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ICE uses celebrity loophole to hide 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.
For years, the country’s rich and famous have used a little-known Federal Aviation Administration program to shield their private jets’ flight records from public view — among them Taylor Swift, Oprah Winfrey, and Steven Spielberg. But in 2011, under the Obama administration, federal regulators signaled that they no longer planned to honor the block requests unless private jet owners submitted evidence of a legitimate “security concern” — essentially gutting the program. Just like Musk’s private jet, the positions of ICE’s deportation flights will remain available even if they are flown on blacklisted planes, thanks to the enthusiasts who feed this information, called ADS-B data, into open-source exchanges.
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