Jose wrote in
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http://news.com.com/Will+airport+of+...y/2100-1008_3-
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When pigs fly...

Oh, I dunno... follow the money.

Who would =really= benefit from technologies that quietly deliver
individulals' personal data to a government agency? Can we do this with
the individual either unaware of or uncaring about the immense privacy
invasions this would ultimately mean?

Look at the "savings cards" issued by grocers.

'nuf said.

Jose

Yeah, follow the money.

Grocers use Savings Cards as a profit generating tool. By getting your
personal information and identifying your demographics, they can save
money on advertising and increase marketing returns by sending only the
proper ads to your house or on your phone. It is the CORE of their
business. They have been pushing Newspapers to accomodate their needs for
years, and the newspaper industry as a whole is suffering for it. It's
totally and completely driven by advertising, sales and profits. The
advertising industry spends gazillions of dollars every year on market
research, demographics testing, and list generation because it's how
companies generate revenue. And so anything that improves their research
is easy to subsidize.

It is not about government conspiracy. It is about corporate profits.

All this techology that Evans is talking about will not generate profits
for anyone except a small number of technology companies. Perhaps it will
eliminate jobs, or more likely it will take low-paying, low-skill
screener jobs and replace them with higher paying higher skilled
technology jobs that will probably get sourced to India anyway. Not
something that a government official is going to push through.

And the RFID chip idea is not innovative or new technology - we've had EZ
Pass on our highways in New York for over 10 years, and RFID has been
used in the warehousing industry longer than that.

The article starts off with a set of claims that is completely ridiculous
("... commuter pilots who fly the plane from a home office") and then
goes on to basically say that Evans is a dreamer, no one with money (ie:
the CFO) is buying in.

I don't buy in either.