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      "text": "Hey, listen, we also see this a little bit just on a TSA side with trying to differentiate PreCheck from standard screening right? As TSA rolls out these new computed tomography machines, CT machines, which you've probably seen in the checkpoints, They will allow standard passengers to begin to leave electronics in their bags, leave liquids in their bags, reduce the divest requirements, and now you've got a traveler document checker that's biometrically enabled, that allows better identification, more rapid identification of the passenger. So even from an internal TSA perspective, we're starting to worry about making standard screenings so good. There's no longer a need for even PreCheck, and we'll start seeing the PreCheck enrollments go down. So it's all kind of dependent on the technology, the speed, and the efficiency that we can get people through the checkpoints at. It's just getting better and better and better. And some of these earlier tricks that getting through, they just may not be needed in the future.",
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      "text": "Well, I'm not being a wise guy, but that's the question actually. And we've talked a lot about that when I was at TSA because little by little as TSA gets better at biometric identification, and as the passengers get more comfortable with it and as the speed of travel picks up because of it, etc., etc. I always personally thought people were going to start saying, why am I paying CLEAR X amount of dollars? I don't even know what it cost to be honest with you. When I could pay TSA about $80 for five years and get virtually the same experience, and in a lot of airports I go to now, the CLEAR lines are way longer than the PreCheck lanes. And you got to think to yourself, why are we doing that? So you hit on it. And I don't have a real good vision of how that works in the future because TSA technology is changing so quickly and things are going to be sped up by a combination of better identity management, better on person screening, and better checked baggage, or excuse me, carry-on baggage screening that the differentiator that CLEAR provided six or seven years ago is just going to get narrower and narrower.",
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