No-Fly Zone

December, 2003

John Gilmore has a thing about showing his ID card at the airport. A cofounder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Gilmore doesn't think the government needs to know when he flies, so he's suing the Justice Department in an effort to have airport ID checks declared unconstitutional. This past July Gilmore challenged airline authority more directly. As he sat on a British Airways flight waiting to leave San Francisco, an attendant demanded he remove his ever-present lapel pin, which reads Susp...