A senior DHS official is seriously interested in EMD Bracelets for all airline passengers. The basic idea is to replace boarding passes with bracelets that would connect passengers with their luggage, serve as passenger identification, enable tracking throughout the airport…oh and they have the abililty to taser you if you get out of line. That’s right. EMD stands for Electro-Muscular Disruption. If you don’t believe that someone is seriously marketing this – here’s the infomercial

These things are obviously a bad idea for several reasons. Everyone is screaming Big Brother is watching! But here are 5 more problems with EMD bracelets.