Originally Posted by PatrickHenry1775
At the risk of sounding cynical, don't hold your breath waiting for the Registered Traveler program to be implemented at most airports. As someone else noted in this thread, agency and job security is the most important thing for TSA, as it is for most if not all governmental organizations. Registered Traveler, like EPT, reduces the need for screeners and so will be resisted, just like TSA has been resisting the arming of pilots. TSA needs to protect its turf and budget, so any program or measure that decreases the number of warm bodies in TSA is a threat to its bureaucratic existence.
One little thing they don't tell you about (at least as far as I can tell) is that they share that data with over 20 countries.
So if you want a good chunk of the world knowing everything about you, this program is for you (not directed at you personally).
There are other parts of the federal government that aren't happy about this system and discourage its employees from participating.