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.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Nerdfest on Monday December 19 2016, @11:32AM
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.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday December 19 2016, @07:52PM
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.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Nerdfest on Monday December 19 2016, @10:54PM
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.