Travel industry analysts think the long-awaited report will continue the debate over screening procedures and add another element to it: Even a voluntary trusted-traveler approach would require passengers to provide credit information, tax returns and other personal data to verify that members pose little or no risk.Washington Post
It’s all voluntary they say. That’s how it starts. Then it becomes mandatory. Or the other options are made much too inconvenient. If implemented, this is another attack on individual privacy, tantamount to an internal passport. Thumbs down.
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Then why don’t they get EVERY TSA’s credit report and tax reports! FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT! What’s good for one is good for all!
Nobody should have to give up their most personal information in order to complete a travel contract, not even the TSA agents.
What they are proposing is time tested. It is called a propiska.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport_system_in_the_Soviet_Union
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propiska
Is anyone else starting to see a pattern yet?
To the Homeland security Analyst reading this; Is this what you signed up for??
What’s next? Big stars sewn to our jackets?
Much as I would like to attend some of my industry trade conferences, the next one is across the country from me and impractical by any means other than plane. That means I won’t be going. If I can’t drive there within 15 hours, it’s off my list.
This actually wouldn’t bother me as long as it were voluntary and exempted me an my family from rapescans and groping. Look at it this way- the government already has your tax returns and credit information, so you wouldn’t even be providing them with anything new.
If the people who want all this personal information already have it, why the need to provide it again?
Also, government runs on perceived or implied consent. This is a lot of consent-giving.
is anyone else picturing an eastern bloc soviet country? checkpoints manned by soldiers, demanding papers as you pull up to the barricade…
How do we, the citizens fully cognizant of the ramifications of such policies, motivate the apathetic majority into action?
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We don’t have to. We simply have to be a tireless minority.
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Geoff Freeman, executive vice president of the U.S. Travel Association: “Travelers, and especially frequent fliers, would give their right arm for a different experience.”
This is the real danger. As I’ve said since Thanksgiving, we’ll escape the frying pan, but the real threat will be the fire. Here it comes, with the blessing of the travel associations, Kate Hanni types, the airlines and the desperate public. Internal passports, biometric cataloguing, travel permission slips…total control over travel.