Will You Be A 'Trusted Traveler' Or Deemed 'Not Trustworthy' And Unable To Travel In The Future?  Bad Credit? Tax Problems? Personal Issues? Wrong friends?
Department of Homeland Security boss Janet Napolitano told a conference of travel and tourism industry leaders gathered in Las Vegas that the prospect of shoe bombing remains a threat to aviation. “We are moving away from one size fits all in security,” she added. “Trusted traveller programs are where we are focused. TSA administrator and former deputy FBI director John Pistole told the Wall Street Journal that the agency would use data from frequent-flier programs, which many carriers have kept for decades, to identify potential "trusted travelers,” the Boston Globe reports. Boarding passes of individuals in the program would be marked with a bar code, and those passengers would go through an expedited screening line after presenting their passes and valid identification. It's reported this week that Mexico is now assembling a biometric national identity database that could be used to document names for a North American Trusted Traveler border pass card, a plan under development by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for Mexican citizens. We're Next!  Once this so-called voluntary system is implemented and becomes operational it's only a matter of time before it will be mandatory to relinquish all personal data and biometrics (finger prints, iris scan, DNA) to the government in order to travel. Your life will be an open book for every criminal and pervert in government to scrutinize! Not to mention all the corporate interests that will have unfettered access to your personal information.
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               Just Some Of The 'Fine Folks' With Access To Your Privacy


Panel urges TSA to implement ‘Trusted Travelers’ Program
The proposal of a trusted-traveler program takes the debate through a thicket, pitting the right to privacy against the goal of secure flight. Congress rejected a Bush administration plan known as CAPPS II that would have tapped into credit information to verify passenger credentials. The  'Trusted Traveler' mandate would require passengers to provide credit information, tax returns and other personal data to verify that they pose little or no risk. In return for giving up any semblance of privacy or anonymity, 'The Trusted' would be allowed to zip through security.
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The Return Of  Capps CAPPS II?
Re-Packaged As Trusted Traveler
CAPPS II (Computer Assisted Passenger Profiling System) Government surveillance via passenger profiling was a Bush-Cheney proposal to give the government a new role unprecedented in American life: running background checks on Americans who fly, and giving them a ""risk score."" Secretive, lacking due process protections for people who are unfairly tagged, and yet easy for terrorists to circumvent, ACLU say's This program once put in place will grow into a most un-American system of internal border controls.

 Wired Magazine Predicted A Return To CAPPS II Stating:
It may return in a new form with a new name.
Homeland Security spokeswoman Suzanne Luber said in '04', "The name CAPPS II may be dead, but the process of creating an automated passenger pre-screening system to replace the current CAPPS will continue," Luber said. "What form that takes, that's what we will continue to focus on. Due to operational factors such as public comments on CAPPS II proposal, we are now redesigning the program itself."  Any new program will likely not be deployed anytime soon, as the TSA will likely need to reissue a Privacy Act notice detailing how the system will work, collect comments on the notice, issue new rules or a secret order to force airlines to provide passenger data to the system. 
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 What's at Stake?
Your fundamental right to privacy and your fundamental right to travel without being forced to give up your constitutionally protected freedoms.
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