The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has created a system for private jet owners to keep their registration information, including names and addresses, confidential. This could impact celebrity private jet tracking tools compiled from publicly available information, which have used FAA registration information to identify planes owned by the likes of Elon Musk and Taylor Swift.

The new FAA system is authorized by the Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act of 2024, which gives the organization two years to develop procedures for aircraft owners and operators to request that any "personally identifiable information" be kept confidential. The FAA said it was also "evaluating" whether to go further and keep such information private by default. The bill becomes law under the Biden administration in May 2024.

The change could make it more difficult to operate celebrity aircraft trackers, which use FAA registration information to identify private jets owned by celebrities in order to track their flight paths.

Accounts monitoring the plane usage of Musk, Swift, Mark Zuckerberg, Kim Kardashian and others have gone viral in the past, although bans have also appeared on platforms owned by Musk and Zuckerberg. In 2023, Taylor Swift sent a cease-and-desist letter to Jack Sweeney, who operates several popular airplane trackers.