Facebook, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Apple Don’t Rule Out Helping Track Muslims
Only a spokesperson for Twitter made clear the company would not cooperate.
Microsoft said it was "not going to talk about hypotheticals at this point,” while pointing to company statements on security collaboration between government and the tech industry.
Booz Allen Hamilton declined to answer the question. IBM, Apple, Google, Facebook, SRA International, and Canada’s CGI did not respond to The Intercept’s inquiry.
The Intercept says it sought answers for two weeks, reaching out to companies via phone and email.
US President-Elect Donald Trump and his transition team have waffled on several of his campaign promises, but they seem to still be considering a registry of immigrants from Muslim countries, and possibly of Muslim Americans. Under such a system, immigrants or citizens in a database could be subject to interrogations and other forms of monitoring.
How exactly such a system would work is still unclear, but it’s easy to imagine information harvested from social media, big data analytics, and large-scale database infrastructure being attractive tools for anyone trying to build it.
Source: fortune.com
