I think it is no better than at the end. The issue is not how or what they are collecting regarding CHL holders. It is the fact that they are collecting information at all as a requirement of admittance. Unless they are planning to collect the information of everyone entering into the fairly legally they shouldn't collect CHL holders. The fact that only CHL holders information is being collected makes it de facto that the information is that of CHLs holders. the guise that there is nothing that identifies the person as a CHL holder doesn't change anything....- DPS stated that the information taken about CHL holders should not in any way identify the person as a CHL holder, and they agreed.
I don't care if the person who gains access to information after the fact knows if I am a CHL holder. I don't want that person to ever have opportunity to get the information at all.