Don’t be Evil: Google and Apple go on record opposing any effort to build a Muslim registry

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In a Friday evening release to Buzzfeed, Apple and Google spokespeople went on the record saying that the two tech behemoths would be opposed to helping build or contributing to any sort of ‘Muslim Registry’.

A spokesperson for Google said:

“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.”

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.”

The idea of a registry was put forward during President-elect Trump’s controversial campaign but like many the other ideas put forward, it seems to be walked back as his term starts in a month. Amazon and Oracle troublingly declined to comment on a Muslim registry while Uber simply said “No”.

Many other tech company employees have joined the NeverAgain Pledge. You can sign up here. 

The Intercept’s Sam Biddle did the original work in this area getting other technology notables to decline the hypothetical:

https://twitter.com/samfbiddle/status/808863329976512512

https://twitter.com/samfbiddle/status/808440714384248834

https://twitter.com/samfbiddle/status/809538318048329729

https://twitter.com/samfbiddle/status/809151349942349824

https://twitter.com/samfbiddle/status/809108073818312708