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.
OK, call me old-fashioned, but I don't use credit. I've never had a credit card and don't want one. I live within my means and simply don't buy what I can't afford. I have no debt. What does credit information (or lack thereof) have to do with risk? Am I a bad American simply because I'm not in debt up to my eyeballs?
and yeah... it's innocent until proven guilty, not the other way around