Originally Posted by
SDF_Traveler
I believe the TSA is determined to get Secure Flight going under the guise that is will stop flagging people incorrectly with the no fly list and selectee list. The mission of the pre-screening program will creep and it will become a huge data mining and data storage program.
Such a program will further erode our civil liberties which are on a slippery slope at the moment.
And, mark my words, it will go FAR beyond the guise of airport security. Once the data is collected and kept for 40 years, it'll be an easy process for the IRS to obtain that data to look for patterns (credit scores) that might indicate a tax cheat ("you have a lower score because you have no car loan, comrade, then you might be a tax cheat"). And so on, across every government program and function.
Where are the "small government" folks when you need them?