Hey, if it means I can keep my shoes and my belt on going through security, I'm all for it. Anything that is going to actually be effective, and not merely massively inconvenient security theater.
We couldn't lay off the nearly 250,000 active employees of the Security Theater arm of the US Government just because we had an actionable technological solution that reliably worked. We have votes to think about!
I would be interested in the cost-per-life-saved by TSA, and how many orders of magnitude larger than universal healthcare it would be.
1 - www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-aclu-tsa-20170207-story.html
1. Add a bunch of ineffective, but annoying so-called security procedures. Truly annoy people. Take off your shoes and belt!!
2. Offer a way out of that nonsense, in exchange for trading away your privacy.
3. Win.
I fully expect to have to scan my face AND remove my shoes and belt. The TSA doesn't give a fuck, and no one holds them accountable for the delays they've added.
The option is already there for this - TSAPre
2) Requires you to give the government your fingerprints. This is particularly a problem if you have children between the ages of 13 and 18 (old enough to not just get pre-check if the parents have it, not old enough yet to make their own decisions about whether the government should have their fingerprints).
3) Not available at all airports.
4) Not available at all gates at the airports where it _is_ available (even for US airlines).
It's better than nothing as long as item 2 is not a problem for you, but it's a lot worse than sanity would be.