Originally Posted by Cookie Jarvis
It seems like forever that airlines have asked for ID before providing a boarding pass. Not that it bothers me to provide it, but why do they need it?
Of course in the time period between the present and when US airlines routinely (and widely) started demanding presentation of ID for domestic travel hasn't even covered close to two decades. And by the time a similar time period passes from the present going forward, we're going to be living a de facto public life whether we want our privacy or not -- unless something is legally done about this.