Episode 16 | Aviation’s New Privacy Crisis: How ADS-B, FAA Reform & Public Tracking Are Colliding | 10/15/25

Podcast: The Truth About the Market Host: Jason Zilberbrand, President & CTO, VREF

Episode Overview

In this episode, Jason takes you deep into one of the most consequential — and least understood — shifts happening in aviation right now: the privacy war brewing between the FAA, public flight-tracking, ADS-B technology, corporate secrecy, celebrity security, and a century-old registry system built on transparency.

For the first time in U.S. aviation history, aircraft owners can legally hide their names and addresses from the public Aircraft Registry. At the same time, anyone with a $50 receiver and a Wi-Fi connection can track nearly every movement an aircraft makes.

That collision — secrecy vs. transparency — is starting to reshape how aircraft are bought, sol ...