Are you as frustrated as I am every time you take a flight on an airliner, doesn't it just piss you off being treated like a second class citizen or worse a cow in a line to chow? Oh sure, you can sign up for "fast-pass" type frequent flyer bypass deals, but they really are not all they are billed as.
All this high-tech security, well, you'd think we should be completely safe, but the TSA can't even guarantee that.
Okay so, let's go ahead and talk about this if we might.
There was an interesting piece on the eye-scanning technology being used now at some airports.
The piece appeared in Bloomberg BusinessWeek on September 1, 2012 titled; "The Truth Is in The Eye of the Flyer," by Ashlee Vance.
It seems that every time they come up with a better security system at the airport, we have to give away more personal information.
They already have our driver's license number, social security number, credit card number, date of birth, where we came from, our fingerprints, and every other thing.
Apparently, they are cross-referencing all this information with our ISP address, and who we've contacted last 30 days on social networks.
Some might say they aren't doing that, but how was it they were able to catch a couple of kids who were playing around on twitter claiming they were going to destroy Los Angeles, when what they really meant was they were going to party hard once they got here, surely the Fusion Centers are reading accessing social networking platforms.
Now, we are being told that if you give them your iris scan, you can be fast tracked at the airport.
That would be nice, I don't deny that it would be cool to move through that line faster, but what they're basically doing is electronically digitizing your iris scan to verify who you are, and the government will keep that information forever.
It seems as if it's almost a trick to get you to cough up more information, and willfully give them more of your personal identity.
We already know that the government can't keep a secret, or protect your private information.
If you give them your iris scan, someone else may use that against you someday.
Just as they do with a steal your credit card number that you use online for something.
You see my point? And what of that famous Hollywood movies; "The Minority Report" isn't this just about the "1984" concept that the writer of that screenplay was thinking of? Are you scared yet, are they really protecting you from terrorism, or collecting all your personal information under the auspice of the fear of terrorism? Is it the government we should be scared of, or the terrorists, and which governments, today's governments all sharing information with each other, or those that will come next and thus, inherit that information? Should we be scared of the information that the government cannot secure, and therefore be afraid of the hackers stealing our identity? It seems that fear is a big word here, and although this technology is good for security and safety, don't get me wrong, I just don't trust anyone anymore, especially the TSA after the way they treat us, they don't care, that's obvious.
Don't you agree? And if you do, don't tell anybody, you might be put on a watch list.
This whole thing is getting to be utterly ridiculous, do you see my point?