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Saving you a click: the government has a cron job that runs once each night checking for new entries in law enforcement databases across the US.

Wouldn't we be concerned if a trusted traveller program didn't do this?

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I have to admit my admiration for these news outlets who manage to come up with mostly technically true headlines that still don't represent at all the core of the article.

Thanks for saving me a click - that's why I always scan the comments before following a link :)

Newsweek at this point is a poster child for low quality click bait journalism unfortunately.

I’m of an age where the name Newsweek still has some inertial value of quality (and, in fact, I somewhat preferred it to Time). Sad to see what it’s become.

I was mildly in the Time camp for whatever reason although they were pretty much made from the same mold and hired from the same schools.

But, leaving aside the state of journalism generally, the days of a lot of us getting our information from weekly or monthly magazines--and maybe the evening network news sometimes--went out a long time ago. I never subscribed to a daily newspaper because I didn't actually live in the city.

I'm more concerned about choosing a batch approach instead of an event based architecture.

Jokes aside, it means people on the run can get through it for several hours, right?

They probably have a separate "all-points bulletin" process for urgent cases.

A warrantless search that’s a cronjob? Seems that for some people, if the tech is simple then that’s ok! To me, that’s still a rights violation whether it’s a cronjob or not.

Is it a rights violation? When you sign up for Global Entry it's pretty clear that criminal history will disqualify you. That's kind of the entire point of the program (pre-clearance to validate a low risk).

The fact that they just repeat the same background check you do when you apply, doesn't seem out of place.

What is being searched here? The fourth amendment only applies to your property and possessions.

Well, it's a little more than that. They also look at private lists airlines maintain about unruly passengers.

Insanity! The US government is checking the identity and background of entrants to the US!

Global Entry is the name of the program available only to US citizens who have undergone a background check and application.

This isn’t them monitoring people with visas.

Permanent residents(green card holders) are eligible as well I think.

While they are in the US. Shoot, they may never have left the US!

Yes. Why do we need a trusted traveler program?

It's a convenience for frequent/wealthy travelers and for CBP to reduce the number of people they need to screen.

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