Comments on: TSA Stays Silent As Its Registered Traveler Program Melts Down http://daggle.com/tsa-stays-silent-on-registered-traveler-meltdown-758 Danny Sullivan's Personal Blog Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:28:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: bbarnes http://daggle.com/tsa-stays-silent-on-registered-traveler-meltdown-758/comment-page-1#comment-3466 bbarnes Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:07:12 +0000 http://daggle.com/?p=758#comment-3466 My husband flew out of Jacksonville Airport this morning. The Preferred Travelerer line was gone with no explanation. My husband flew out of Jacksonville Airport this morning. The Preferred Travelerer line was gone with no explanation.

]]> By: AndrewDover http://daggle.com/tsa-stays-silent-on-registered-traveler-meltdown-758/comment-page-1#comment-3079 AndrewDover Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:59:05 +0000 http://daggle.com/?p=758#comment-3079 >>> Third, if the Clear data is being destroyed, how do Flo and Preferred Traveler know anything to validate? People are validated against the biometrics on the smartcard, not against a database. >>> Third, if the Clear data is being destroyed, how do Flo and Preferred Traveler know anything to validate?

People are validated against the biometrics on the smartcard, not against a database.

]]> By: Dan at airships.net http://daggle.com/tsa-stays-silent-on-registered-traveler-meltdown-758/comment-page-1#comment-3027 Dan at airships.net Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:20:17 +0000 http://daggle.com/?p=758#comment-3027 There are many issues prompted by the concept of Clear, including the economic inefficiency of having frequent fliers and other travelers whose time is worth a great deal to our overall economy waste tens of thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of potentially productive hours standing in security lines. But one aspect of the history of Clear -- the TSA's insistence on looking at a photo ID in addition to a Clear card -- also illustrates an example of the TSA's frequent inability to act intelligently, or even with basic common sense. It is almost hard to imagine the absurdity of an agency which rejected the infallible certainty of biometric identification in favor of having fallible and possibly overworked employees compare tiny driver license photos to travelers' faces, again and again, thousands of times a day, despite changes in appearance due to hair color or style, weight gain or loss, aging (my driver license photo is over 10 years old), changes in facial hair, etc etc. There are many issues prompted by the concept of Clear, including the economic inefficiency of having frequent fliers and other travelers whose time is worth a great deal to our overall economy waste tens of thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of potentially productive hours standing in security lines.

But one aspect of the history of Clear — the TSA’s insistence on looking at a photo ID in addition to a Clear card — also illustrates an example of the TSA’s frequent inability to act intelligently, or even with basic common sense. It is almost hard to imagine the absurdity of an agency which rejected the infallible certainty of biometric identification in favor of having fallible and possibly overworked employees compare tiny driver license photos to travelers’ faces, again and again, thousands of times a day, despite changes in appearance due to hair color or style, weight gain or loss, aging (my driver license photo is over 10 years old), changes in facial hair, etc etc.

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