You keep missing the idea. The idea isn't that they get your credit history. It's that they get a score.

When you buy a car and get dealership financing (yeech) the finance guy there doesn't look at your full credit report. He looks at the credit score, which the agency generates and hands to him. I think it would be the same way. The feds don't get your credit history, they get a "security risk score". They don't see the raw data.

Meanwhile - if you donated to a political party via credit card they can get that data from ChoicePoint.

It will be too tempting to see where you spend your money. Donations to political parties? Donations to the ACLU or a tea party group? Donations to the Cannabis Defense Coalition, even if it's for Phil's defense fund? (Or perhaps, especially if it's for Phil's defense fund?)

There's just no way an organization as paranoid and risk-averse as TSA will settle for something as simple as "had a credit card for 5 years."

The other thing that worries me about this (I'm up to six things, I think ) is that if TSA approaches this like they have everything else, I can foresee people submitting their credit records, tax returns, life history, whatever, and then being rejected by the TSA without any reason given. "Sorry, ma'am, you've been turned down for trusted traveler but we can't tell you why. SSI, you know. But please feel free to try again (with the non-refundable application fee) in six months' time." Now they've got all your data and you've got nothing.

People get put on the No Fly list without being told why (or even told that they're on it). I can't see that the Can Fly list will be any different. [/QUOTE]