The problem with your argument is that we aren't all free to build an airplane and fly. The skies are a commons resource and regulated by the government, who grants a license to private corporations to provide travel to its citizens. It's a complicated system of interactions, and your attempt to simplify it hides inherent complexities. There's a balance between individual privacy/liberty and public safety, private freedom and government regulatory power, and many of us feel that that balance is being shifted too far towards government power in the false name of safety. So yes, we will publicly bitch about these things, as is our right and responsibility in a democratic system.
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What happens if you microwave one of these proposed passports?
Perhaps they got confused by the dichotomous nature of binary communication.
The problem with your argument is that we aren't all free to build an airplane and fly. The skies are a commons resource and regulated by the government, who grants a license to private corporations to provide travel to its citizens. It's a complicated system of interactions, and your attempt to simplify it hides inherent complexities. There's a balance between individual privacy/liberty and public safety, private freedom and government regulatory power, and many of us feel that that balance is being shifted too far towards government power in the false name of safety. So yes, we will publicly bitch about these things, as is our right and responsibility in a democratic system.