Dictator Alert

“Dictator Alert is a project that tracks the aircrafts of authoritarian regimes all over the world and runs several Twitter bots that announce when these aircrafts land in ParisLondonGeneva or the EuroAirport in Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg.

You can track dictators aircrafts here: data.dictatoralert.org

“Nearly all planes around the world transmit unencrypted information about their location as well as other details which can be captured by ADS-B antennas. Dictator Alert uses data from ADSB-Exchange, including several antennas we’ve installed ourselves.

The details of each plane captured by the antennas are compared with a list of aircrafts registered to, or regularly used, by authoritarian regimes. When a match is found, a message is published on the website.”