Dear ------: Southwest Airlines has been working in cooperation with the TSA to introduce Secure Flight, a federally mandated program designed to help enhance the security of domestic and international commercial air travel through the use of improved watch list* matching

. Southwest Airlines is therefore required to collect additional Secure Flight Passenger Data, which includes:

Your full name, exactly as it appears on the current (non-expired) government-issued photo ID that you will be traveling with
Date of birth
Gender
The TSA-issued Redress Number** (if applicable)
Update your MySouthwest Account
Now All Southwest Airline Customers are able to update their account information once so that it is compliant with TSA requirements. It is recommended that you do so before your next flight to minimize your chances of being delayed or held in TSA security check-points.

If you have reservations for future travel, and booked without full name, birth date, and gender, there is no need to add this additional information prior to your upcoming trip.

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I thought you might find this email interesting. After reading your books (How to Be Invisible and Invisible Money) I'm not quite sure how I feel about this "requirement". It appears rather intrusive; however, I suppose it's supposed to help with air travel security.

... There is no longer any way to legally travel without the goverment knowing who you are. However, as long as you use your passport for ID, they still don't have to know what state you live in, much less your home address or true telephone number. (You can get a free phone number from K7.net.)

If you send any future posts, please add the HTML code for paragraphs. As shown in the instructions it is < p > (without the spaces). You can also use < br > for line breaks.

If you do questionable things, people will come find you. Not exactly a path to privacy.

Submitted Link #1: http://mikeyounglaw.com/wp/2009/08/28/perry-belche...

If you recommend using hosting companies outside the US, are there particular countries, (or companies) you can recommend? Or do you recommend using US companies?

Can you give us an example of how you would recommend a web-based business arrange hosting, and payment with the hosting company. Thanks very much!

... The simplest solution is to pay extra to whoever sets up your website if he will act as your nominee.

Otherwise, you might try checking on one of the South American countries. A close friend, David, is a web designer who is moving back to Peru in less than two months. I'll ask him to check around down there.

Has anyone ever purchased a mailbox and added it next to several others, effectively creating a "new" ghost address? I've been thinking about the feasibility of this, and have read before that this is easy to do in a “rural” setting where rows of mailboxes are common. However, I’m thinking that in these rural environments many of the neighbors know each other, and would think it’s suspicious that a new address just popped up. If anything, I think this would be easier to accomplish in an urban setting (maybe a small condo or apartment complex), where neighbors tend to keep to themselves and ignore things like a new mailbox appearing out of nowhere.

Can anyone shed some light on the legality of this, as well?

... I once mentioned this as a possibility but I've since decided it's a poor idea. One of my readers tried this a few years ago and told me it did not work for him. (I don't remember the details.)

The second place I get mail is at my home address (in the works of changing that). I must add that although I have my address on the mail; it gets delivered to my parent's mail box because I took mine down (didn't want folks to have access to my street number). My parents live next door; so that is probably why the mail person just started putting my mail in their box.

So a couple suggestions for you; do you have a neighbor you could see about "sharing" a mail box? If you do get another mailbox, add a name or two of "children" (with different last names) who will get mail there. You wouldn't have ID for a 5 yr old, but it would enable you to get mail to that PO box under different names.

This makes me sick. I'm not trying to argue politics or religion, but just look around and use your common sense, and see if you don't feel like we are in a police state.

From the article, "...a grandmother of triplets who bought one box of Zyrtec-D cold medicine for her husband at a Rockville pharmacy. Less than seven days later, she bought a box of Mucinex-D cold medicine for her adult daughter at a Clinton pharmacy, thereby purchasing 3.6 grams total of pseudoephedrine in a week’s time...When the police came knocking at the door of Harpold’s Parke County residence on July 30, she was arrested on a Vermillion County warrant for a class-C misdemeanor, which carries a sentence of up to 60 days in jail and up to a $500 fine."

Submitted Link #1: http://www.tribstar.com/local/local_story_24622591...

... I like this comment, below:

"If you're not doing anything wrong, you've got nothing to worry about, right? Oh wait... "