Civil liberties groups blast biometrics

Comparing apples to oranges: It is a privelage to *drive* an automobile, and your logic does hold true that it would be a privelage to *fly* an airplane.

In the US, there is also a protection against unreasonable search and siezure. The courts have upheld that patrolling an area does not constitute searching, although applying the term "patrol" to this kind of a program would be a stretch.

I agree that there are some privacy issues to work out, but I'd side with the governments on this one. If I were a dissident from a repressive regime, I wouldn't be travelling on a passport issued that that country!; Posted by: Font Posted on: 03/31/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Well said Jomo suiitor | 03/31/04

Constitution??? gilgamesh_z | 03/31/04

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Uproar over nothing... realitycheck101 | 03/31/04

YEAHRIGHT so far ... suiitor | 03/31/04

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