US software designers and tech workers take a pledge to refuse creation of databases for government to target individuals based on race, religion, or national origin

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Write a list of things you would never do. Because it is possible that in the next year, you will do them. —Sarah Kendzior [1]

We, the undersigned, are employees of tech organizations and companies based in the United States. We are engineers, designers, business executives, and others whose jobs include managing or processing data about people. We are choosing to stand in solidarity with Muslim Americans, immigrants, and all people whose lives and livelihoods are threatened by the incoming administration’s proposed data collection policies. We refuse to build a database of people based on their Constitutionally-protected religious beliefs. We refuse to facilitate mass deportations of people the government believes to be undesirable.

We commit to the following actions:

• We refuse to participate in the creation of databases of identifying information for the United States government to target individuals based on race, religion, or national origin.
• We will advocate within our organizations:
• to minimize the collection and retention of data that would facilitate ethnic or religious targeting.
• to scale back existing datasets with unnecessary racial, ethnic, and national origin data.
• to responsibly destroy high-risk datasets and backups.
• to implement security and privacy best practices, in particular, for end-to-end encryption to be the default wherever possible.
• to demand appropriate legal process should the government request that we turn over user data collected by our organization, even in small amounts.
• If we discover misuse of data that we consider illegal or unethical in our organizations:
• We will work with our colleagues and leaders to correct it.
• If we cannot stop these practices, we will exercise our rights and responsibilities to speak out publicly and engage in responsible whistleblowing without endangering users.
• If we have the authority to do so, we will use all available legal defenses to stop these practices.
• If we do not have such authority, and our organizations force us to engage in such misuse, we will resign from our positions rather than comply.
• We will raise awareness and ask critical questions about the responsible and fair use of data and algorithms beyond our organization and our industry.

Note: Signatories’ references to affiliated organizations below are for identification purposes and are not intended to imply an endorsement by the organization.

Signed,

Aaron Becker, Google

Aaron Brethorst

Aaron Couch, DKAN

Aaron Cowdin, DevOps, PrensenceLearning, Inc.

Aaron Crespo, Engineer, third generation holocaust survivor

Aaron Gee-Clough

Aaron Kraus, Reciprocity, Inc.

Aaron L. Sullivan, Software Developer

Aaron Petcoff, The New Yorker

Aaron Ringgenberg, DevOps Engineer, Patreon

Aaron Smith, DevOps Engineer, Civis Analytics

Abbas Manjee, Chief Academic Officer, Kiddom

Adam Alpern

Adam Bender, Senior Software Engineer, Google

Adam C. Foltzer, Galois

Adam Glasgall, Akamai

Adam Harvey, New Relic

Adam Herzog, Trifork

Adam Jones, Director of Technology Nerdery Chicago

Adam Thomason, Fastly

Adam Wright, Branch Metrics

Adarsh Jupudi, Cloud Architect, Datacom

Aditya Naik, Android Developer

Adnan Alam, IT @ GitHub

Ahmed Sharaf

Aidan Fitzgerald, Cornell University

Aki Rose Braun, Programmer, PayPal/Venmo

Akil Harris, First Look Media

Akiva Leffert

Alaina Hardie, Singularity University, Precision Nutrition

Alan McConchie, Stamen Design

Alana Hanson, Leapfrog Online

Albert Bodenhamer, Engineering Manager for Chrome OS UI, Google

Alberto Burlacu

Alec Perkins

Alek Dembowski, Software Engineer, Google

Alesandro Ortiz, Software Engineer

Alex Baldwin, Poncho

Alex Broque, Sr. Network Engineer, Hurricane Electric

Alex Cook, Software Engineer (Part-time Thought Leader)

Alex Jarvis, Developer

Alex Rudnick, software engineer, Google

Alexandra Hrefna Hilmisdóttir

Alexandra Savas, Product Marketing Manager

Alexis Christoforides, Microsoft

Alfred Ababio, Software Engineer

Ali Afshar

Alice Boxhall, Software Engineer, Google

Alice Rhomieux, Software Engineer, Google

Alison Buki, Developer/Designer

Alison Hodges, Founder, Erlea Documentation Professionals

Allele Dev, Simple

Allen Lai, Plaid

Allison Clift-Jennings, CEO, Filament

Alyssa Kwan, Analytics Engineering Lead, Clara Lending

Alyssa Wright, President of OpenStreetMap US and Vice President of Partnerships at Mapzen

Amanda Robinson

Amber Yust, Google

Ambrose Bonnaire-Sergeant

Amelia Abreu, UX Night School

Amy Farrell

Andreas Fuchs, Stripe

Andreia Gaita, GitHub

Andrew Aldridge, Software Engineer, MongoDB, Inc.

Andrew Aude, Software Engineer

Andrew Bennett, VHL

Andrew Bloomgarden, Lead Software Engineer, New Relic

Andrew Bogott, Wikimedia Foundation

Andrew Bonventre, Google

Andrew Cassidy

Andrew Cheung, Signal Sciences

Andrew Dunham, Stripe

Andrew Green, Creator of NetPhone

Andrew Huang, Xero

Andrew Losowsky, The Coral Project

Andrew Love

Andrew Michaud, Quantcast

Andrew Staples, SugarCRM

Andrey Petrov

Andy Bartholomew, Software Engineer

Andy Bursavich, Software Engineer, Google

Andy Carra

Andy Gocke, Microsoft

Andy Sternberg, Rotary International

Andy Tinkham

Andy Westmoreland, Developer at Elevator Up

Aneel Nazareth, Software Engineer

Angela Gunn, incident response, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence

Anil Dash, Fog Creek Software

Anna Brozek

Annie McCance

Annie Tuan, Mobile Software Engineer

Anthony Butler

Anthony Martinez, Twitter

Antoine Leblanc, SRE, Google

Anton Johansson

Anu Rao

Aram Zucker-Scharff, Full Stack Engineer, Salon Media Group

Aria Stewart, npm Inc

Aristotle Manolakos

Aron Adler

Arthur Richards

Arun Ganesh, Map Analyst, Mapbox

Asher Cohen

Asher Langton

Asumu Takikawa, Igalia

Audrey Eschright, Recompiler Media

Avi Zajac

Ayelet Bitton, SWE, Lyft

Barbara Shaurette, Software Developer

Bard Luippold, Sr. Product Manager, Amazon

Bart Teeuwisse, Google

Beatrice Huang, Software Engineer

Ben Alkov, Technologist

Ben Coburn, Software Engineer

Ben Cohen

Ben Ford, Principal Training Solutions Engineer

Ben Jones, Engineering Lead/Manager, Tapjoy

Ben Kraft, Khan Academy

Ben Lambert, IBM Watson

Ben Marx, thedatabank, gbc

Ben Matasar, Civil Comments

Ben Mendis, Software Engineer, Novetta Solutions

Ben Paul, Product Analyst, Edmodo

Ben Steinberg, DevOps Engineer, Harvard University

Ben Tarnoff

Ben Wiedermann, Harvey Mudd College

Ben Williamson

Ben Wood, Autodesk

Benjamin Esham, Ellucian

Benjamin Melançon, Agaric

Benjamin Rahn, Stripe

Benjamin Schwartz

Benjamin Sternthal, Web Development Manager, Mozilla

Benjamin Stockwell

Bertrand Fan, Staff Engineer, Slack

Bill Fitzgerald, Privacy and open content advocate

Bill Nottingham, Red Hat

Bion Johnson

Bion Johnson, Software Engineer, Citizen Code

Blain Smith

Blake Barrett, CTO Pitchly

Bob Powell, Software Engineer, Digital Anarchy

Bob Schaefer

Bojan Rajković, Microsoft

Brad Buchanan, Code.org

Brad Fair

Brad Greenlee

Bradley Snider, Esri

Brady O’Connell

Brandon Faloona

Brandon Istenes

Brendan Weibrecht, Ruby Developer, Swinburne Cyber Security Club

Brennen Bearnes

Bret Lowery

Brett Houtz

Brian Ganninger, Atlassian

Brian Geppert, metacode

Brian Jenkins, CTO, FoodCare

Brian Keefer, Security Engineer, Proofpoint, Inc.

Brian Kung

Brian Mastenbrook, AirStash

Brian Schrader

Brian T. Rice, Awake Networks

Brian Tarricone, Software Developer

Brian Truebe, Trust & Safety

Briar Rose Schreiber, Software Engineer, Board Member of Stumptown Syndicate

Bridget Kromhout

Britton Watkins

Brook Shelley, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Turbine Labs

Bruce Bennett, Senior Technical Writer, Avid

Bryan Deloeste, Software Engineer, Intelex Technologies

Bryan Naegele, Integrity

Bryce Alexander Lynch

Buster ’Silver Eagle’ Neece

Buzz Andersen, Brooklyn Computer Club

CJ Coffey, Software Engineer, TVA

Caitlin Cooke, Nava Public Benefit Corporation

Caleb Thompson

Calvin Ashmore, Google

Cam Hunt, CTO, Listen

Carl Johnson, Senior Software Engineer, Ad Hoc LLC

Carl Manaster

Carmen Andoh, Travis CI

Carol Hansen, Mapbox

Carolyn Anhalt

Casey Dentinger, Wikimedia Foundation

Casey Dunham

Casey Monroe, Toyota Motor Sales

Cassandra Cruz, Software Engineer, Mavenlink

Celia La, Khan Academy

Cem Unsal, Ph.D., EE

Cesar Tardaguila

Charles Lanahan

Charlie Park, Slack

Chase Tingley, Spartan Software, Inc.

Chip Locke, Software Engineer, Microsoft

Chris Braiotta

Chris Corcoran, Technical Lead, Twilio

Chris Palmer, Security Engineer

Chris Pickard

Chris Radcliff, Return Path

Chris Ruppel

Chris Short

Chris Wetherell

Christian Heilmann

Christian Monaghan, Cofounder, Nava PBC

Christian R. Vozar, XumaK, Rogue Ethic

Christine Dodrill

Christine Sublett

Christine Sun, Software Engineer

Christopher Allan Webber

Christopher Buecheler, Founder, CloseBrace

Christopher De Vries, Hindsait

Christopher Vermilion

Christopher Whitaker, Chi Hack Night

Chuck McCorvey

Chuck Wolber, Software Engineer

Cindy Jeffers

Clinton Cecil, Software Engineer, Primex

Clinton Dreisbach

Clinton Mielke, Founder, Infino.Me

Cody Brocious, Optiv Security

Cody Russell, Microsoft

Colby Aley, Software Engineer, Reflect

Colby Walburn, Sr. Software Engineer

Colin Dabritz

Colin Kelley, CTO, Invoca

Collin Sparks

Conrad Meyer

Conrad Rushing, VP Engineering, Splash

Coraline Ada Ehmke

Corey Csuhta, Some Assembly

Corey Farwell, Software Engineer

Craig Chasseur, Google

Cristos Lianides-Chin, Anchor-Buoy Software

D. Knudsen, Technical Program Manager, Audible

D. Scott McDaniel, Technical Lead, Southern Poverty Law Center

Dale Sheldon-Hess

Damien Neil, Google

Damien Sorresso, Senior Software Engineer, Apple Inc.

Dan Andreescu, Sr. Analytics Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation

Dan Auerbach, Application Developer, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Dan Boger, Google

Dan Bornstein, Computer Programmer

Dan Collis-Puro, Lead Engineer, Heroku

Dan Copeland

Dan Fujita

Dan Kaminsky, Chief Scientist, White Ops

Dan Kurtz, Software Developer

Dan Lew, Trello

Dan Phiffer, Mapzen

Dan Wood

Dana Davidsen

Dana Sniezko

Daniel Berrangé, Software Engineer, Red Hat

Daniel Doman, IBM

Daniel Duan, Software Engineer, Squarespace

Daniel Espeset

Daniel Gamble McAdam, Software Engineer, Bazaarvoice

Daniel Miles

Daniel Rosensweig

Daniel Sandoval, Human Experience Designer

Daniel Tunkelang

Danielle Dunne

Danielle Jackson

Danielle Leong, Software Engineer, GitHub

Danne Stayskal, Artificial Intelligence, Lifeboat Foundation; Cryptographer, March Hare

Dannel Jurado

Danny Glover, Plastiq

Darci Wood, Salesforce

Darren Vengroff, Chief Scientist, Hestan

Dash Brittain, Software Engineer, Apple

Dave Mayo, Software Developer, Harvard University

Dave Reid, Lullabot

David Adrian

David Allen Fisher, Software Engineer

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