Originally Posted by
Global_Hi_Flyer
Some employers tell their employees to avoid such trusted traveler programs to avoid disclosure. This will surely become an issue as TSA spreads their interrogation tentacles nationwide. And some security clearance levels require prior permission before doing any kind of international travel, along with a post-trip debrief.
I'm not saying they don't, but what does it disclose? Say you work for some company doing business overseas, but they don't want competitors knowing where they're sending people (say an oil company trying to explore new fields, or a tech company with new suppliers). How does enrolling in GE increase the disclosure of their travels, especially in the general sense of the past 5 years? If someone's tracking you, they can do that when you travel anyway. And if they're paying someone in CBP for info, they could get that whether you enter using GE or enter with your passport scanned by CBP.
And if you have a security clearance requiring permission for international travel, enrolling in GE wont change getting permission.