Did you pay $189 for Clear? You may have to show your ID at TSA anyway, threatening one of the program’s biggest selling points

• All Clear members will have their identity verified by the TSA in the future, the agency says.
• The company’s screening process was called into question following a security breach last summer.
• For $189 a year, Clear members can cut airport security lines with “touchless” ID verification.

Clear, a privately-owned security program available in most major airports, allows members to cut security lines with its “touchless” ID verification system. 

In other words, you pay $189 a year to scan your eyeballs or fingerprints instead of pulling out your driver’s license. Then, you get escorted to the front of the airport security line (while receiving a fair amount of jealous glares).