FAA Admits Names & Addresses In Drone Registry Will Be Publicly Available (forbes.com)

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday December 20, 2015 @09:38AM from the open-book dept.

Lauren Weinstein sends word about this admission by the FAA that has led many to have concerns about privacy. Forbes reports: "The FAA finally confirmed this afternoon that model aircraft registrants’ names and home addresses will be public. In an email message, the FAA stated: 'Until the drone registry system is modified, the FAA will not release names and address. When the drone registry system is modified to permit public searches of registration numbers, names and addresses will be revealed through those searches.'"

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Re:Time for ownership proxies as with private plan by EmagGeek · 2015-12-20 14:19 · Score: 3, Insightful

At the same time, though, if you want to know if someone is a pilot, all you have to do is punch their name into the FAA's pilot certificate search tool, and it will tell you.
Pilots do not have privacy with the FAA, and planes are not registered with holding companies for privacy purposes. It's all about taxes.