A Muslim “registry” doesn't require a single registration, just data

This gets brought up every other thread on the subject of &#x27;registries&#x27; for minority groups, but if you haven&#x27;t you really should read <i>IBM And The Holocaust</i>:<p>The upshot is that Germany used their census data to figure out who is and isn&#x27;t a Jew, but they also used records from synagogues, surname analysis, and other pre-war &#x27;big data&#x27; sources along with incredible amounts of IBM equipment to compile their list of undesirables.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;IBM-Holocaust-Strategic-Alliance-Corporation-Expanded&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0914153277" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;IBM-Holocaust-Strategic-Alliance-Corp...</a><p>With the NSA, Donald Trump will have access to more information about the demographics of American populations and who comprises them than the Third Reich ever had about its own citizens. There will be no registries. And in the throes of a national security hysteria comparable to the fears of influence from anarchism in the early 20th century, there will be no internal will at these agencies to oppose him.

As a Muslim American, I am absolutely in awe, and simply shocked that something like this has come up at all. If this trend continues, I will definitely leave the US as soon as I finish up my degree.<p>Last week, my state Georgia tried to pass a bill that would effectively ban wearing the hijab (headscarf) in public. Thankfully, there was a huge amount of backlash and the bill was withdrawn.

We&#x27;re not bystanders; our industry is the most important facilitator of this problem and we understand the causes, implications and solutions far better than anyone. We have a serious responsibility to our fellow citizens, just as the food industry has a responsibility not to poison everyone. What are you and your company doing about it? You have 2 months lead time before your competitor starts rolling out their products:<p>* Is your company minimizing and anonymizing user data? Is it implementing end-to-end encryption?<p>* If your product is hard for users to avoid (e.g., an ISP is hard to avoid, a casual game is not), do you provide a way for users to utilize it confidentially?<p>* Users need private alternatives, which means that FOSS projects need a lot of help making their products much more usable and reliable; can you help out?<p>If you are thinking, &#x27;my little portion won&#x27;t solve the problem&#x27;, you&#x27;re right. Nothing gets done in a democracy unless people all do their little portions, and unless they organize. The United States is the &#x27;Land of the Free&#x27; only if its citizens make it that way.<p>....<p>Also see here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2016&#x2F;11&#x2F;tech-companies-fix-these-technical-issues-its-too-late" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2016&#x2F;11&#x2F;tech-companies-fix-the...</a>

<i>The prospect even more terrifying than a show-up-and-be-recorded registry is that governments and private companies already have all they need to secretly create that registry overnight.</i><p>Facebook already has all of this data, for users and many non-users.<p>Start panicking.

&quot;Graph theory&quot; of the sort that&#x27;s used in social network analysis will become the lie detector test of the 21st century -- junk science based on a poor interpretation of elementary mathematics applied to dubious data sets.

Good job everyone for letting the government gain so much power. I&#x27;ve said it before and I&#x27;ll say it again: monolithic governments that have fingers into every aspect of your lives are dangerous.

Concerns about privacy were considered theoretical by so many for so long. At least now we know the theory, but we need to implement and deploy it ASAP.

Not to be flip, but given what Snowden told us, I&#x27;m pretty sure this registry already exists.

Unless the point of forcing a physical signature is to terrorize that group as much as to collect names.<p>For example, lynchings were not intended as genocide but to keep blacks in fear as much as being a source of psychological indulgence for the murders.