Yeah, right. Just like we're not going to cooperate with government agencies to spy on our own citizens under secret laws and secret courts.

I hope and pray history does not repeat itself . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

They won't have to... all the web-bugs and web-beacons will allow them, in combo with Facebook/Google/SMS/phone-call data, to determine with a very high degree of accuracy who is Muslim and who is not.

It's almost as if no one ever heard of "dual use" technology before.

This is a nice symbolic gesture I suppose, but there already is a muslim registry, and a prominent member of team trump sits on its board.

Less competition for Oracle.

Software is made by other people in other places too!

Pretty sure an NSL and the accompanying gag order will disallow them from speaking out publicly.

I'm wondering though, what exactly is the "incoming administration’s proposed data collection policies"?

Government registries for otherwise law abiding citizens is counter to the Constitution. You shouldn't have to be in a registry to: fly on an airplane, own a firearm, or worship a certain way, and the government has been expressively prohibited from doing so (unlawful search and seizure).

We need to stop letting special interest activists weaken this foundation.

Or Palantir

Oh, how reassuring. They'll commit to principle when it helps them thumb their nose at the other political team, but privacy is still out them window when it conflicts with business goals, right?