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Facebook, Apple, Google, IBM, Uber and Microsoft Won't Help Build a Registry of Muslims

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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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• Accenture Accenture (Score: 3, Informative) by blackhawk on Monday December 19 2016, @11:45AM

  by blackhawk (5275) on Monday December 19 2016, @11:45AM (#443076)

  It doesn't matter what those tech companies say they will and won't build - because none of them was in the running for the government contract in any case.

  This sort of work goes to the huge tech development companies, like Accenture, HP, Oracle, Dell, Cisco, PW.. you know the usual suspects. The ones who quote 2 years and 200 million for delivery of the software / hardware, and then go 3 years and 1 billion dollars over budget. The sort of people who build things like the Joint Strike Fighter, a plane so crappy it won't even be able to fire it's guns for two years into it's service contract.

  MS, Facebook, etc are just the public face of IT. Most of the real work is done behind the scenes by massive lumbering corporations who've dominated that part of the market for decades. "Too big to fail", and "don't bet against Big Blue" or similar sayings are entrenched in corporate mind-space, and dominate the government space.

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• Re:Accenture (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @12:56PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 19 2016, @12:56PM (#443104)

  MS, Facebook, etc are just the public face of IT.

  MS, Facebook, etc are just the public mass surveillance data gathering tools.

  FTFY

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