[sneak]

You have to show government-ID-linked payment card information to shop at most shops in airports, or to buy plane tickets.

Most people use a SIM card that is tied to same. Their web activity is similarly tied to ID.

Most USians voluntarily provide that payment card (with full name in the magstripe) whenever they shop at a grocery store or movie theater.

I’m not sure why people think this sort of surveillance isn’t occurring. We’ve known since before Snowden that the feds have been receiving this data in bulk in realtime for decades.