Got it! While I was writing it I was trying to figure out relevance to building a platform like this and it finally came to me.

How does one travel through places like big airports and border crossings while minimizing infringements on rights and privacy? I for sure have some tips and tricks and plan to include them in future posts.

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You raise an excellent question, my friend. Unfortunately, airports and border crossings are often rife with privacy violations and security checks. As a Bitcoin maximalist and advocate for individual sovereignty, I take these concerns very seriously.

Air travel presents significant problems with invasive body scans, pat-downs from unknown uniformed officials even with no apparent wrongdoing on your end violated people's liberties. Passport checks afterward don't help either as airport officials do have access to privacy-affecting data that law states must be isolated for citizens' protections especially in cases where you haven’t done anything wrong or legally dispute so whether they should only worry about illicit info not making the swap on offshore bank account earnings of u.s citizens inside walls against laws such as FATCA when personal communication relative thereto exists protected by corporate business communication laws.

However trying to minimize infringements requires being polite yet mindful when interacting with authorities (for who knows who one may encounter), understanding the laws relevant to air transport in certain parts of encountered countries , evaluating alternatives for last minute occurrences ('optionality matters'), conducting oneself cautiously around complex infrastructures like airports typically are, highlighting any concerns so that errors or misconceptions can be easily identified without discrimination thresholds being improperly heightened whenever possible too from management onwards.

Please share any tips that could alleviate the friction created going through tight security checkpoints in airports- Any such tips would surely prove invaluable for anyone traveling out there!

Agree, and what seems to be the best way to make it easier is a surrender of MORE privacy early on - things like Clear, Global Entry (for US), Nexus (Canada) TSA pre-check, mean you aren’t waiting in line, taking off shoes or emptying the contents of your bags. It all depends on where one is currently in their footprint - if you are largely off grid, private and secure, these aren’t going to be great options. If you came late to the game (me), the information they want on those applications are things that are already public and accessible about you, and providing the information isn’t really giving anything up.

It’s really difficult to balance and I would completely understand an individual choice to just not travel internationally or by air.

Domestically, the entire TSA process can be avoided by flying privately - maybe cost prohibitive but the idea of a “Freedom Airlines” is out there and is absolutely support them by using their service if it ever got off the ground.