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December 14, 2016

Tech Workers Say They Won't Help Build Trump's Muslim Database
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Heads of the nation's top technology companies, including Apple,
Facebook and Amazon, are meeting with President-elect Donald Trump
today. An increasing number of technology workers and at least one major
company have said they will not participate in the creation of a
national registry for people from majority-Muslim countries-one of
Trump's campaign proposals. Hundreds of tech workers have signed on to a
pledge titled "Never Again," saying, "We refuse to participate in the
creation of databases of identifying information for the United States
government to target individuals based on race, religion, or national
origin." The company Twitter has also said it would not participate in
the creation of such a database, after being contacted by The Intercept.


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