Tech workers pledge to never build a database of Muslims

It's a lovely gesture, and an important sign of solidarity; however, it'a merely that, just a gesture.

I hope that SV and the tech industry leverages its wealth and technical legal capabilities to fight these sorts of actions in court, unlike their responses to privacy intrusions by the federal government, British intelligence, and other foreign groups.

Russia will do it. They did everything else to make Trump happen.

Do we not have enough databases built already with enough data points to effect this?

It's a ridiculous and naive view of the world.

Of course it already exists. For example on facebook. For example in the mosques.

Everybody was warned, everybody could have seen this coming. But most people didn't give a fuck. Welcome is post privacy. I didn't need have to be that way. We can still turn this into post-post-privacy. But only if we face what we have already done.

It is one thing to say that publicly but real test with be when NSA will come with all their weapons. May be NSA can say give me all your data and we will do something like s/mohammad/target/g.

The bigotry and utter disrespect for the privacy and freedom of own citizens is the larger problem that is not just Tech industry's issue here.