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Reader Correspondence—April 2025

ADS-B data used for tax enforcement sparks privacy backlash, raising concerns about safety tradeoffs and unintended consequences.

ADSB surveillance can have unintended consequences

ADS-B Privacy Meets Safety

I read Larry Anglisano’s First Word commentary, “ADS-B Privacy Concerns,” in the March 2025 Aviation Consumer and can weigh in.

Our law office just handled a hearing in the Utah Tax Court where the State of Utah assessed a 6.75 percent use/sales tax on a new Cirrus, produced the FlightAware tracking records and argued that the Cirrus had spent significant portions of its flights in Utah passing through or over Salt Lake City’s Class B airspace.