TSA offers to invade your private data instead of your private parts
July 23rd, 2013
Perhaps you’ve come across this meme. Apparently 400 TSA agents have been arrested for theft since 2003, but no terrorists have been caught. Not deterred by utter failure, it looks like the TSA will be transitioning into a quasi-intelligence gathering agency… of course TSA agents have never been known for their intelligence.
The TSA is now offering a ‘PreCheck’ program so those who apply for membership and are approved can skip the standard sexual molestation. Instead of getting the blue glove massage on their wedding tackle, members will pay an $85 dollar fee and allow the TSA to rummage through their personal life.
For starters they want your fingerprints, but it doesn’t stop there. They want your web history and online data. The TSA made a post explaining their new PreCheck program on FedBizOpps, and what’s interesting is their outsourcing the work to a third party contractors. This from a report by NextGov:
“TSA is weighing a contract that would hire private screeners to parse an applicant’s consumer data, such web browsing histories, for signs of danger before admission into express inspection programs.”
Now call me crazy, but doesn’t “consumer data” mean purchase history? So, in addition to the stupid list of things you’re no allowed to bring on a plane, soon there will be a stupid list of things you’re not allowed to own if you want to fly.
Brace yourself, because this is not going to stay an opt-in option forever. I’m predicting we’ll see a handful of Statist media stories about obedient people praising the program and flaunting their PreCheck membership cards. Then the program will become back door for religious and ideological profiling. Then people who refuse to opt-in will be demonized and treated with suspicion. Then some crisis will be exploited to make the program mandatory, and then the doors are closed. Every American will have to subject themselves to a thought audit before they travel.
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