Buzzfeed:
In response to questions from BuzzFeed News, Google, Apple, and Uber clarified their positions on President-elect Donald Trump’s comments about a possible Muslim registry. “In relation to the hypothetical of whether we would ever help build a ‘muslim registry’ – we haven’t been asked, of course we wouldn’t do this and we are glad – from all that we’ve read – that the proposal doesn’t seem to be on the table,” a spokesperson for Google told BuzzFeed News in an email message.
BuzzFeed News asked all three companies whether they would help build or provide data for a Muslim registry. An Apple spokesperson said: “We think people should be treated the same no matter how they worship, what they look like, who they love. We haven’t been asked and we would oppose such an effort.”
Leaving aside the insanity of having to discuss the subject to begin with, the problem is, if the government wants it built, they can do it without any of these companies. Some company out there will take the government’s money.
But no one asked them to do so. I, too, won’t help do something I wasn’t asked to do.
Indeed. This is one of those situations when journalists, including those specialising in tech, are frustratingly clueless. Google, Apple and Uber are not the companies that the government would turn to to build something like this.
Agree with chjode and StruckPaper. I don’t imagine Kraft will do it either.
Any SQL Server and web server will do.
It’s more about making the statement than helping. It’s a show of opposition to the idea.
Not if you want it to be secure, reliable, and scalable. That’s where technical expertise comes in.
Then why not interview Bank of America, Walmart, etc? It’s actually clickbait journalism.