{"id":284528,"date":"2016-12-14T17:35:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T16:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-tech-workers-vow-not-to-help-trump-surveil-muslims\/"},"modified":"2016-12-14T22:34:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T21:34:57","slug":"us-tech-workers-vow-not-to-help-trump-surveil-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/us-tech-workers-vow-not-to-help-trump-surveil-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"US tech workers vow not to help Trump surveil Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>More than 200 employees of technology companies have vowed to not help incoming US President Donald Trump build a data registry to track Muslims or assist in mass deportations of undocumented immigrants.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The employees of several high-tech corporations, including Google, Facebook and Apple, signed an open letter on Tuesday, rebuking ideas floated by Trump during his presidential campaign. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The employees signed the open letter at neveragain.tech. They compared Trump\u2019s proposal to track Muslims to the Holocaust and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.<\/p>\n<p>The online protest comes a day before several chief executives in the high-technology sector in Silicon Valley are due to meet with the president-elect in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are choosing to stand in solidarity with Muslim Americans, immigrants, and all people whose lives and livelihoods are threatened by the incoming administration\u2019s proposed data collection policies,&#8221; reads the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/12\/14\/497877\/US-tech-company-employees-surveil-Muslims\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 200 employees of technology companies have vowed to not help incoming US President Donald Trump build a data registry to track Muslims or assist in mass deportations of undocumented immigrants. The employees of several high-tech corporations, including Google, Facebook and Apple, signed an open letter on Tuesday, rebuking ideas floated by Trump during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-284528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}