This article shows that the methods and desire for hightened surveillance of all people are growing rapidly. Tracking fingerprints for all travellers sounds like a perfectly reasonable and secure way to keep terrrorists from attacking our precious transportation systems. However, increased surveillance worldwide lends plenty of creedence to those who consider it a slippery slope which will end in a nearly privacy-free world. Minority Reports, a movie from a few years ago demonstrates this "big brother" scenario in as realistic a way as any other movie or book I am aware of. In this movie, it is possible to read the minds of people as a way of crime prevention. This may seem like an impossible scenario to us now, but the more ways of tracking people the government has, the easier it is to "read minds" by predicting what someone is planning to do next. Of course, this is exactly the goals of law enforcement agencies, but it is not a reasonable solution to anyone who values their privacy.