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"Consistent with TSA's long-term roadmap, CLEAR has been collaborating with DHS and TSA since 2020 to implement new industry-wide digital identity standards. T
by rolph 3y ago
"Consistent with TSA's long-term roadmap, CLEAR has been collaborating with DHS and TSA since 2020 to implement new industry-wide digital identity standards.
The implementation of these new standards will digitally transmit a passenger's identifying information
from CLEAR to next-generation TSA hardware at airport checkpoints and avoid any need for passengers to show their IDs," per a Clear spokesperson.
- toomuchtodo 3y agoIt’s all silly theater. CLEAR has revenue share deals with airports to allow you to cut the TSA line. The TSA is already rolling out identity verification similar to what CLEAR tried to implement. TSA identity proofing is still the requirement. Folks need to ask airports why CLEAR gets to collect fiat to enable security screening line cutting under the guise of security.
- metadat 3y agoAgreed, it's shady or at least questionable why a singular private entity has been handed a monopoly position blessed by the government to exchange money for line cutting at every major airport. How did this contract come to exist? How does this further the interest of taxpayers?
- vrosas 3y agoSame with EZPass
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- macNchz 3y agoEZ Pass is a cooperative partnership between all of the participating toll agencies, not a private corporation.
- wildzzz 3y agoYou can usually avoid paying the toll if you carpool or drive a motorcycle or just don't take that highway during peak hours. There's almost always public transit along an express lane so you could take that too. It unreasonable and inefficient to allow single-occupancy vehicles to use all lanes of traffic at all times on busy roads.
- NotYourLawyer 3y agoPaying money to skip lines seems fine.
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- xp84 3y agoAssuming I agree with your premise, which some might find deeply disturbing in the context of government, doesn’t it seem shady that this one for-profit private company is deputized to offer this service? I too want to know the terms, and at least whether these contracts are up for bid regularly. If I were the negotiator for the government side, I’d feel obliged to cap subscriber fees as a condition of the deal, and also to encourage multiple companies to compete for the contracts on how much of the revenue they’ll give the government/airport. The lack of competitors makes it seem like a sweetheart deal.
- bliteben 3y agoSeems like paying to create two classes of citizens
- CogitoCogito 3y agoWhy is there a separate company involved? What service are they even providing?
- Xorakios 3y agoperhaps at theme parks or bribing bouncers/maitre's d not at government checkpoints