Story Leak – by Anthony Gucciardi
Now you can keep your shoes on when travelling through the Orwellian TSA ‘security’ checkpoints thanks to a new program that only requires one thing — the complete and utter erosion of your personal privacy.
Instead of cutting the various ‘anti-terrorist’ security functions employed by the TSA that have not caught a single terrorist despite expansive funding and highly invasive techniques that violate our fundamental rights, the TSA is now offering a new ‘quick pass’ system that allows enrolled US citizens through the first few security measures once they are approved by the agency for membership status within the program.
And in order to participate in the ‘PreCheck’ TSA program, you will need to allow them to reach down into the proverbial pants of your personal life as well. Under PreCheck, you are required to not only present your fingerprints to the TSA in person and pay a fee of $85, but the agency is also looking to gather all forms of your data as well — which reports state includes your web history and online data. With the help of a third party organization, the TSA seeks to ‘pre-screen’ (think pre-crime) individuals based on their activity in order to determine if they are worthy of bypassing the most minimal of security checkpoints.
We can find this in a posting made by the TSA on FedBizOpps in relation to the new PreCheck program, which discusses the tactics used to ‘pre-screen’ fliers for the PreCheck program through the use of third party contractors. And according to a report by NextGov, PreCheck members will even be offering up their web history as a part of the qualifications, writing:
“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.”
So essentially, the largest amount of compliance is rewarded with a bonus given to those who go along with the TSA’s police state tactics with a smile. Rewards are given to those who offer the TSA their fingerprints, their web data (likely using a download from the TSA website that scans your usage and reports everything back to DHS), and of course 85 dollars of their finances. It’s essentially like openly allowing the NSA to come in and mine your data, but this time you’re also handing it over to the DHS.
And you still have to go through the naked body scanners.
In time we will tell how many Americans have surrendered to the TSA and criminal elements of government at large when we see just how many citizens actually give away their privacy to save time in the TSA fondling lines. Coming around fall of this year, it will truly be a sad sight to see Americans flaunting their TSA-approved PreCheck cards in a rush to the naked body scanners.
Instead of sacrificing your privacy on the altar of the TSA and convenience, how about we kick them out instead. The TSA is literally a worthless sector of government that can easily be fooled by any amateur who studies the basic functions of the naked body scanner machines, as we’ve seen in the past with videos explaining how to take anything past the TSA scanners. There’s a reason they never catch all of the test weapons brought through airports.
Read more: http://www.storyleak.com/tsa-fingerprints-web-history-and-keep-your-shoes-on/#ixzz2Zs0iHd8o
Makes me think of the chip in our right hands to permit commerce.
At first it is sold to us as a convenience which we PAY for. Because the alternative is made to be so unattractive. It is a false choice, but it is also coercion covered over with happy smiles to make us want to buy it, or to flatter those of us with the means to pay, as a mark of status. Many will fall for it, though.
And I’m wondering how this ties into revelation of NSA collecting and snooping. If we give our consent, then they can do it.
Just say no.
Give you my fingerprints, web history, and I can keep my shoes on?
As they say in Italy; ba fungu.
get the hell out of my sight and you might be able to keep your head on.
Next, it will be, you can bypass everything if you just have this RFID chip installed in your right hand or forehead and you will be exempt for everything. Oh and you just need to pay $500 for the implantation fee and an additional $85 to put you in our system. But that’s a BARGAIN!!
The sad thing is that they are charging $85 to put YOUR information in THEIR database. Hell, you should be charging them NOT the other way around. Maybe I could charge DHS $85 to put all of THEIR information in MY database. Think they would go for it? NAH!!!
Even more sad is the amount of sheeple who will go along with this $85 bullshit. I wouldn’t be surprised if they started to charge you a monthly fee for it.
Hell, the monopolistic Austin, TX utility company blackmails people by charging them $10.00 every month to be THEIR customer (No lie) “$10.00 customer charge” and no one bitches about it. Their excuse is probably, “well it is to put you in our database and to keep it running”. I’ve worked in tech support and that is bullshit. You only need so much money to keep the database going every month and the rest is extortion and racketeering.
Such a bargain.
Almost makes me want to fly again.