They make possible the effective risk management that will allow us to accelerate legitimate flows of people and goods between our countries while strengthening our physical security and economic competitiveness.

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But given the amount of real time information that each business produces is it possible that rather establish up front a set of crude regulations that either allow or deny an activity, is it possible to pay attention to actual data to make sure that legitimate public interest goals are being met?

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