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No! No! No! No, Renew of FISA Section 702

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pkveazey:
Grizz: They watch all of us by what we buy with Credit Cards, Debit Cards, and swiping those damned Cell Phones under a scanner. Pay cash for as much as you can and be careful what you post on the internet. Also, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER store anything on the CLOUD. They have access to the Cloud by just asking for the information. Microsoft doesn't even ask them to get a warrant. We can never be entirely the GRAY MAN but we can come as close as possible. They know that I have some Silver because I've mentioned it on this page. But it could be one ounce or a million but they'll never know how much because I bought it with cash and the guy that I bought it from doesn't even know my name. Buy all of your gas from one gas station and they won't know where you've been as long as you stay off the Interstate highways because most Interstates have those 50 foot mounted high definition cameras. I don't do anything wrong but, "My business is My business", not their business. They also look at social media for information on people. Facebook, Instagram, You Tube, Tik Tok, etc. is another thing they look at. Just for laughs, I'll send an email to one of my friends and put some bullshit in the SUBJECT box. They have key words that looks at all emails in the Subject Box and if one of those key words pops up, they read the entire email. I like to put GUNS, BOMBS, and EXPLOSIVES in the Subject Box just to make some government desk jockey have coffee shoot out of his nose when he sees my subject. Then when they read my email they realize they've been messed with and they then know that I know what they're doing. Even though I know how to fly a plane but don't have a pilots license, I never fly commercial anywhere so they can stick their NO FLY LIST right up their butt.

Felix:
Had to fly out of LAX this morning and TSA had a new wrinkle (at least for me) to add into their prodigious efforts at keeping us all "safe".
Apparently it wasn't enough (to keep us all safe) to simply match a photo ID (DL or Passport) with boarding pass...'Nope, they added in a digital photo-taking - so now, my facial recognition data is just about as official as the non-existent gun/ammo registry that simply isn't being compiled, a work in progress (because that would be in violation of the law, dontcha know).
On the plus side, my plane wasn't blown up mid-air, even though they gave me back my shoes, belt and Chapstick.

JohnyMac:
I read somewhere, you can refuse the digital photo thing. Did you have an option?

Felix:
"I read somewhere, you can refuse the digital photo thing. Did you have an option?"

Sorry-assed excuse time:
After two days of judging field dogs in hours of rain, sleet snow sometimes blowing horizontal on us and tired as all get-out... headed out of the mountains down into LA @ 0300 so as not to miss my 0600 flight out of LAX - I was thinking only of making the flight and was NOT being "situationally aware".   And I did the herd thing and simply did what everyone else was being hurried through.
Only later did I have pause to consider and realize what had just been done to me (and ALL of the rest of the herd).
In retrospect (the hindsight=20x20 kind) I should NOT have complied, even if it created a "scene", got me ushered into "the room" and caused me to miss my flight home.    They had me, my photo ID and that's been good enough for EVERY other airport I've ever been to (fly around the country averaging 3 times a year).
These bastards have been tightening the noose steadily for some while and as frogs, the vast majority still don't get why the cheese is free and the water is getting hotter.
I'm sorry I let myself and ALL of you down.    Perhaps my experience today might give someone a warning and possible cause to do better than I did.

JohnyMac:
Felix, no apology is needed. Ya' got to do what you got to do.

Below is a link to an article on the new TSA procedure and how you can opt out, at least for now. 

https://www.smartertravel.com/how-to-opt-out-of-tsa-facial-recognition/

According to the article, you opting out will not cause you a delay.

If you have not yet determined that we live in a police state, I have a nice bridge that I would like to sell you.

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