Facebook Says It Will Not Help Build a National Muslim Registry

Facebook And Others Say They Will Not Help Build a National Muslim Registry
After American President-elect, Donald Trump expressed his wish institute a national Muslim registry, facebook has disclosed that they will not be part of it. On BuzzFeed News, a spokesman for facebook said, “No one has asked us to build a Muslim registry, and of course we would not do so." Hundreds of Silicon Valley employees including engineers, designers and executives recently signed a neveragain.tech promise refusing to help build a database of people "based on their constitutionally-protected religious beliefs" under a Trump presidency. The signatories included employees from GitHub, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Google, Stripe, Pandora,  and others. "We are choosing to stand in solidarity with Muslim Americans, immigrants, and all people whose lives and livelihoods are threatened by the incoming administration's proposed data collection policies,". The pledge which has garnered well over a thousand signatures so far, reads. "We refuse to facilitate mass deportations of people the government believes to be undesirable." Earlier in November, The Intercept reported that of nine tech companies that were approached by the government on the proposed Muslim registry only Twitter was willing to state officially that it would not be a party to it. This week, 22 advocacy groups led by CREDO sent letters to eight major technology firms including Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook and IBM urging them "to do better".