Starbucks says incoming CEO Brian Niccol can live in his home in Newport Beach, California and commute to Starbucks’s head office in Seattle on a corporate jet.

Starbucks says Niccol can live in his home in Newport Beach, California and commute to Starbucks’ head office 1,000 miles away on a corporate jet

  • @[email protected]English
    24•27 days ago

    The FAA reauthorization act slipped in that ownership of private jets could remain anonymous. So you can still track them, because all flight plans are public and need to be for safety reasons, but they no longer have to tell you who owns what tail number. A dedicated tracker can figure out what plane belongs to who, either by showing up at the airport, or by comparing flight logs with other information about celebrity locations.

    • @aidan
      12•27 days ago

      So you can still track them, because all flight plans are public and need to be for safety reasons, but they no longer have to tell you who owns what tail number.

      I feel like that has a little bit to do with how journalists tracked down a bunch of FBI shell companies that operated spy planes over BLM(and other) protests.

      • FlaxEnglish
        3•27 days ago

        Why use spy planes? Why not just use police helicopters? Police helicopters are a normal sight above any large scale demonstration

        • @aidan
          1•27 days ago

          I have no clue, some claim its because they’re illegally using Stingrays(cell interceptors)

          • FlaxEnglish
            1•27 days ago

            Basically everything is encrypted, they won’t be that useful. Maybe could perhaps identify who is there though? But depends

            • @aidan
              1•27 days ago

              SMS(text messages) is not encrypted, and LTE phone calls have gaps