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> In Europe, some airports just directly offer a paid priority security option, which sometimes is actually quite inexpensive. But it seems this may not be allowed by the TSA, and the alternative is the fiction of Clear supposedly offering some identity verification benefit. The question is why a non governmental entity is inserted into the middle of transportation security, with a profit incentive. There already exi…
> The question is why a non governmental entity is inserted into the middle of transportation security, with a profit incentive. Reminds me of ID.me, the for-profit company that authenticates users for certain IRS services including IRS Direct File [1]. For some reason, the government agency asks us to present our government-issued ID to a private company to verify our identity when Login.gov [2] exists to provide “t…
Re: Airport security line cutters are target of first-in-the-nation California bill
#51Also a travesty. Especially when USPS could have rolled out an identity verification API years ago. They already verify your identity in person in order to get a US passport, they have physical office space and employees everywhere. What a lost opportunity. Now we are beholden to minimum wage mobile phone company employees to ensure we don’t get our 2FA SMS hijacked.