If you'd pay to skip long airport security lines, you're outta luck.
Clear, that program that Verified Identity Pass ran to give people a way around TSA's standard airport screening, went out of business yesterday.
I never liked Clear because it created another layer of airport security -- another place for things to go wrong -- and it just seemed unfair too. One set of security procedures if you pay. Another for everyone else.
I guess that means I don't feel too bad for Digg founder Kevin Rose, who says he got approved for Clear the day it went out of business.
Travel blog Jaunted says that people in the know could have seen this one coming.
Some people are asking what's going to happen to Clear's database of information on its nearly 300,000 users. I don't know, but a source familiar with the company told me that they're probably going to put out an FAQ about this sometime in the next little while.
I tried to call Clear, but just got a full voicemail box today. Nobody seems to be answering the phone there.
