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> We are choosing to stand in solidarity with Muslim Americans, immigrants, and all people whose lives and livelihoods are threatened by the incoming administra
by m52go 8y ago
> 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. We refuse to build a database of people based on their Constitutionally-protected religious beliefs.
This list is impressively long, but what are these proposed data collection policies that are so ominous?
EDIT: obviously lots of data collection policies are ominous, but I'm trying to understand how the Trump administration is related to this (and how immigrants are especially affected).
- mc32 8y agoGood question. The list of people who were targeted before were peoples who existed before any electronic computing existed. Beside, while this effort may retard some data collection, the data exists in distributed form in addition to voluntarily given by most mobile users --and it only addresses misuse of data in the US --which is a fraction of the world population. India, China, Saudi, Russia already collect more information and do fewer nice things with the data and cover many more people --tho I suspect any effort there will die on the vine. Beside, if you ignore ethnic data, ala France, then you don't have a good gauge on how people are doing beside a theoretical "average" person.