Re:Tech workers pledge to never build a database of Muslims
by edblarney on Thursday December 15, 2016 @06:35PM
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You can point out the risks in the problem, but you cannot deny the problem.
FYI - the US and every country on the planet discriminates against every other nation by way of visas.
Why do you think Americans can travel to Canada without a visa and Venezuelans and Turks cannot?
Do you think Canada is just going to up and allow Turks to come to Canada without paperwork? No. Why? Because it's Turkey. Very different place than America.
By 'xenophobia' do you actually mean to say 'diversity'? :)
And some people would like that - which is sort of the problem with Xenophobia-with-added-statistics.
The trouble with using statistics to discriminate is that it gives people some sort of plausible deniability which they can offload into opaque computer programs ("Did my race give me a higher interest rate? Did my zipcode raise the rates for an educational loan?" ... and we can't know easily).
I'm pondering over how much of "Extreme Vetting" is black boxes like those - whether I'll even know if my code gets used in one.