The threat of a muslim registry is much deeper than just compiling a table of names. Sure, Google an FB have a lot of that information.
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The registry would also have to interface with ICE, State Department (passports), 51 local DMVs, Military personnel systems.
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The point of all this is to say that the construction of such a registry to interface with our existing world requires active engagement.
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It requires active effort by technologists to make it happen. Technologists can actively refuse to partake in those efforts.
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what scares me is that the new "sweep it all away" ethos will empower Palintir, say, to just get right in there ETLing
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Definitely. And they'll have no problem gleefully inflating scope to make themselves sole prime contractor for those systems.
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That underscores a subtler threat, that it will be easy under this admin to use fed. funding to construct a monopoly.
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