I’m trying to figure out a good reason why USA-based travelers would not want to join STEP, run by the US State Department.
These are the people who will try to help negotiate your freedom if you’re captured by terrorists. I talked to the Global Security Director for our own org and he has been recommending this for some time. Let’s do this.
Tracking.
Your scanned passport shows the NSA from whence you have come and where you have gone. STEP informs it of whither you might go.
NSA supercomputers profile your movements.