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Well, to be honest, the title is highly misleading. Sure, they pledged to refuse to participate in the creation of such database, but that's just one of the th
by r3bl 10y ago
Well, to be honest, the title is highly misleading.
Sure, they pledged to refuse to participate in the creation of such database, but that's just one of the things stated in the full pledge. I would emphasize more on the following parts of the pledge:
* to scale back existing datasets with unnecessary racial, ethnic, and national origin data.
* to implement security and privacy best practices, in particular, for end-to-end encryption to be the default wherever possible.
* If we cannot stop these practices, we will exercise our rights and responsibilities to speak out publicly and engage in responsible whistleblowing without endangering users.
- drakonandor 10y ago> * to scale back existing datasets with unnecessary racial, ethnic, and national origin data. We already have this, as the foreigners Trump is referring to have to get US Travel Visas. Obviously we know their country of origin. Anyone paying attention at all knows Trump's current plan is keeping a close eye on all visitors and immigrants (allowed in) from countries with large anti-western terrorism contributions - which happens to of course coincide with some Islamic-majority countries. The whole article and 'pledge' is anti-Trump fluff.
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- esrauch 10y agoThat's his current plan, but some of his previous positions were a bit more draconian / extreme. I think the pledge implies level of drawing a clear line in the sand before it it ever comes to it.
- 1ris 10y agoThat's all nice, but do they believe they can "scale" back? Like how? If facebook drops the table it won't be gone from all the scrapers and law enforcment and intelligence tools.