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Watch on yachts and aircraft, briefly

Most clients don't have either. Some do. For those, this is a coverage note.

2025-10-10 , by Yelena Volkova , 2 min read

AIS and ADS-B are very public.

If your yacht has AIS and your aircraft has ADS-B, by regulation in most jurisdictions, they are emitting your location continuously to a network of public receivers. Anyone with internet access can track them in close to real time.

What we do about it.

We watch the public tracking data on clients' named vessels and aircraft. If something looks unusual, an unexpected port, an unscheduled detour, an unusual transponder change, we flag it. We don't suppress the data; that's not legal.

What this is good for.

Mostly: you have a record of where the asset has been and who knows that. Sometimes: you get a quick warning when something is being tracked unusually persistently from somewhere it shouldn't be.