<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by tazi:
I am not sure why all this extra fingerprinting stuff would be required. These lockers are past security correct? If someone manages to get a bomb past the screeners, they don't really need a locker to hide it.
Of course, this does present an opportunity for the tSA to spend more money they don't have and fatten the pockets of some government contractor.
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The lockers are privately owned,so I suspect it would be up to the owners to make a determination as to whether they wanted to be in this business, by complying. It seems likely that they would just raise the price a dollar, or whatever. Or they could say no, and the free enterprise system pretty much guarantees that some other business will happily take their place.
I think the logic behind the law is to have biometric confirmation of who is using which locker, to avoid contraband being passed through via the back end of an airport (trucks, etc. with supplies), which is still an acknowledged weak point of security.