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posted by cmn32480 on Monday December 19 2016, @06:43AM   Printer-friendly
from the preventing-the-mistakes-of-the-past dept.

Two weeks ago, twitter was the only company willing to publicly commit to not aiding the government in building a database of muslims or any other religious minority. At the time, many criticized the Intercept for a click-baity, misleading headline.

But the public shaming had an effect and now more companies have come forward to vow non-cooperation in repeating one of America's biggest mistakes - when the census bureau provided the names of Japanese to be rounded up for internment camps.

One company notably missing from the list is Oracle which owns the big-data profiling company BlueKai and whose CEO recently joined the president elect's transition team. Also absent is IBM, a company with a history of aiding the German government with their execution of the Holocaust.


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Nerdfest on Monday December 19 2016, @11:32AM

    by Nerdfest (80) on Monday December 19 2016, @11:32AM (#443071)

    Sadly, these days having IBM help with a list of that sort would be one of the best ways to have it fail spectacularly, although the cost for trying would be astronomical.

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  • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday December 19 2016, @07:52PM

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Monday December 19 2016, @07:52PM (#443287) Journal

    So instead they're going to get Oracle to build it? PLEASE.

    My experience is that IBM stuff at least *works*, even if it is unreasonably expensive. Oracle...well, it's expensive.

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    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Nerdfest on Monday December 19 2016, @10:54PM

      by Nerdfest (80) on Monday December 19 2016, @10:54PM (#443413)

      The Canadian government is going through a major pain with an awful system that is Oracle software, installed and configured by IBM. The worst of both worlds.