Student says he was offered $5K by Elon Musk to stop tracking his private jet

Being young is all about lack of perspective, lack of experience about how things can go wrong. I was able to do all kinds of things long before I was able to make good decisions about what I actually should do.

Cars do not have transponders that publicly transmit data, so that comparison doesn't work.

A better analogy is phone numbers, where you can have a number that's not listed in the public registry.

But as long as the data is public, this is what you get, even though owners of private jets don't like it.

It does seem like there are some options for hiding ADS-B data.

https://www.flyingmag.com/faa-privacy-for-ads-b/

https://jetstreamlaw.com/minimizing-access-to-ads-b-data/