24 Replies to “You Too Can Now Be One of the Cool Kids!”

    1. There are lies, and then there are DAMN lies:

      “The check’s in the mail.”
      “I won’t *** in your mouth.”
      “Read my lips, no new taxes!”
      “Your personal data will be deleted after boarding.”

  4. It’s a good thing that this wasn’t in place back in the late 1400s, otherwise Vasco da Gama may just have passed on discovering an oceanic route to India.
    I travel extensively in Ellison county.
    It is what they want. Don’t travel you uppity declining middle class peons. Oh, and here is your bill for your luggage. And pray that the plane has all nuts and bolts in place. Oh, and I hope there isn’t a toxic person to derail departure. ETC.

  5. “Will you walk into my parlour?” said a spider to a fly;
    “‘Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy.
    The way into my parlour is up a winding stair,….”

    And the smart ones know how that “experience” ends.

  6. Can we have the 274 FBI agents hiding among the J6 protestors be subjected to this biometric scan? Then we can match them up with the violent protestors who had nothing to do with the mostly peaceful demonstration … but were agitating for Nancy Pelosi.

    1. Ya know those annoying windows you have to click on that sometimes say, “click all the windows with crosswalks in them?”
      I saw the first “click all the windows with fed agents in them” to pass the security sign in (this was only an X/Twitter meme) and the accompanying photo was of the Capitol Building from 6th January …
      Sure I had a chuckle for a nanosecond, before I realized that Nancy Pelosi now has +$400 million (real dollars, not Canadian “dollars”) to her name and no real means of defending her off the scale expertise in choosing stocks to buy or unload.

  7. how certain are you that your personal data will be completely deleted after you board your flight?
    _________________________

    Trick question? For Biometric Screening to be applicable, one must already be in possession of a file(s) with which to compare it. Otherwise, it serves no purpose.

    I’m curious. I don’t possess, or have any ambition to own, a Smart phone. Any other luddites out there like me?

    1. “I’m curious. I don’t possess, or have any ambition to own, a Smart phone. Any other luddites out there like me?”

      Yup. I have a home computer and an 11″ tablet if I need them for video or web purposes…my Kyocera flip phone is only for making phone calls (and receiving MMS and texts). It also is rated for a 5 foot drop onto concrete and an hour or so under nine feet of water. Ironically, it actually is an Android smart phone with a full browser and data capabilities…it just doesn’t have a touch screen.

      1. Hey, Fred, I can happily respond to your curious question.
        I may be more of a luddite than you are.
        I, too, have an 11 inch Asus tablet for same purposes. I can get SDA, Blazing, and whatever else strikes my fancy, such as You Tube music videos, Pete Santanello, and selective other shite.
        I ditched my ‘smart’ phone years ago and only have a land line.
        No one calls, but that’s OK.
        I may consider a retro flip phone just in case I get a flat tire, but I don’t travel much. In fact, my serpentine belt blew out a while back, but a nice lady called the tow truck for me and it worked out…which is why I will get a basic flip phone so to as not impose upon a nice lady. After all, my old truck is…well…gettin’ older.

        2. “I ditched my ‘smart’ phone years ago and only have a land line.”

          I have a land line as well (VOIP, about $15 a month). It’s my scam-filter…any time I sign up for a ‘loyalty card’ or something similar, that’s the phone number they get.

          “I may consider a retro flip phone just in case I get a flat tire, but I don’t travel much. ”

          I only got mine for work. When I go to Mexico I have another smaller flip phone that I take and buy a TelCel SIM card for it.

  8. We have this product for North America border crossing, it’s called NEXUS.

    The only difference seems to be that you do not need a smart phone here. A digital retinal scan will match to your passport RFID.

    No it is not erased, this is a permanent record.

    If this is at the gate and is used to ID boarding, they must have a record to compare it to. So no, it is not erased.

  11. Our current passport has biometric data.
    I’d guess this scanner might be useful exiting the country, but they still want to see a passport and your face.
    In Frankfurt I got a full body pat down and an ankle- foot massage. On the tarmac an El Al plane had armed guards and two armoured vehicles. No other planes had that.
    Exiting Morocco, our motorcycle was xrayed, passports double-triple checked.
    Do i care about a scan?

  16. I passed through facial recognition scanners in Australia in 2017, they basically herded you into this squeeze gate like thing where you were confined and forced to let them scan your face and hands, I got yelled at by the customs officials attending to the area, for not putting my hands on the scanner, my hands were full, I was carrying my expensive personal items in each hand and there wasn’t enough room in this thing to move, so I had to crouch down put my items on the ground, scan and then pick them up again and proceed. Upon exiting the cattle chute like device, I voiced my disapproval to the customs attendants, they were less than pleased, as was I, they followed me all the way to my gate and made sure I got on the flight!

    “Beautiful country” I told them, “out in the country. Your cities are a dystopian Marxist wasteland of control, I can see how Mad Max could have happened here!”

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