Convenience wins over constitutional rights…again
Remember when I told the states to let the Airlines worry about REAL ID? Well apparently Homeland Security read that advice and only saw opportunity. The Financial Times writes:
Until recently the only thing apart from love that money could not buy was a guaranteed place at the front of an airport security queue. That is changing, as an additional 500 US air passengers a day agree to hand over a $100 (£50) annual fee, plus their fingerprints and iris scans, for the right to become “registered travellers” in private programmes supervised by the Department of Homeland Security.
So now people are voluntarily handing over hard earned cash to be spied on. And you know what? I’m fine with it. You want to volunteer to be watched–that is your business. Let’s just hope this doesn’t equal another national mandate by DHS in a few months.
Which leaves me to ask…how many of you perked up at the idea of skipping ahead of security lines at the airport?
2 comments April 18th, 2008
