Transportation Workers Petition against the TWIC
We urge the United States Government to protect its citizens' rights and end the Transportation Worker Identification Card (TWIC) program. This program has infringed upon our right to privacy and jeopardizes the security of the identities of those who carry a TWIC. Already, the TWIC has forced over 700,000 transportation workers to submit biometric and other private information pertaining to their identity to the Federal Government and private contractors of ill repute.
Moreover, the TWIC which contains this sensitive information is required to be presented to gain access to worksites, in effect, forcing employees to carry this sensitive information on their person at all times. Given that no convincing evidence has been presented indicating that transportation workers are a threat to national security, or that the TWIC will make us safer, we will be satisfied with nothing less than immediate removal of this imposition on our rights and the destruction of personal and biometric information collected to date.
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