Originally Posted by
jollyroger
You're quite right. We have no privacy. Whatever website we go to, our cellphone calls, what we purchase, where we go are all noted and collected for later use. Your credit card purchases are recorded, license plate readers, facial recognition and retinal scanning will be everywhere.
So worrying about flying a little quad will be the least of your worries.
After deleting part of your post, now I can respond to it.
The wife and I used to routinely cross the US-Canadian border to attend weekend long events in our other hobby. On the third time heading to an event, we were stopped at the border, by a Canadian border guard, as per normal. What wasn't normal, however, was the questions we were asked. Instead of the usual
- Where are you going?
- are you leaving anything when you return to the US?
- do you have__________ in your vehicle?
- how long will you be staying in the country?
we were asked
- headed to __________________?
- another ___________________ festival?
- going home Sunday? Have a good time!!
As you can probably tell, our answers from the previous two years had been entered into a data base and, when they entered our car's license number, they had all the information about our previous trips show up. It was actually harder to get back into the US than it was to go to Canada that trip.