You may have been patted down at airports or suffered the indignity of having your dirty laundry from a vacation searched at screening checkpoints. Now prepare yourself for security to get a little more personal.
Passengers making airline reservations soon will be required to provide their birth date and their sex in addition to their names as part of aviation security enhancements the 9/11 Commission recommended. The information provided at the time seats are booked must exactly match the data on each traveler’s ID.
The new program, called Secure Flight, shifts responsibility for checking passenger names against “watch lists” from the airlines to the Transportation Security Administration. Only passengers who are cleared to fly by the TSA will be given boarding passes. (Chicago Tribune)
The requirement is BS. All the required information is already
shown on my driver’s license, my retired military i.d. has
everything but my sex, which is apparent by my picture on it.
My CHL also has all the required info on it also.
GUESS WHAT? DHS/TSA or any other 3 letter acronym or abbreviated fedgov dept is wasting time and resources.
I wonder how much more money this requirement will waste?
I wonder how much time this requirement will waste?
The information is already collected, or easily collectible by the booking agent at the airport where you get your ticket in the first place.
The requirement is REDUNDANT, unnecessary, and just freaks out conspiracy idiots, big brother nutbags, schizophrenics and
other mental defectives.
Great, put more personal information into bunches of databases (travel agent, airlines, gov’t) so that that information is more readily available for someone to steal and lead to more identity theft.
If the information is already on a gov’t document, i.e., passport or drivers license… then why store it in some travel agent or airline database…
Talk about stupid. They really don’t have a clue as to how easy it will be to get that information, do they ?