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								<blockquote><em>Write a list of things you would never do. Because it is possible that in the next year, you will do them.</em> <nobr>&mdash;Sarah Kendzior</nobr> <a href="#footnote1">[1]</a></blockquote>


								<p>

								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&rsquo;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.


								<p>

								We have educated ourselves on the history of threats like these,

								and on the roles that technology and technologists played

								in carrying them out.

								We see how <a href="http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/">IBM collaborated to digitize and streamline the Holocaust</a>,

								contributing to the deaths of six million Jews and millions of others.

								We recall the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans">internment of Japanese Americans</a>

								during the Second World War.

								We recognize that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide#Deportations">mass deportations</a>

								precipitated the very atrocity the word genocide

								was <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/genocide#Etymology">created</a> to describe:

								the murder of 1.5 million Armenians in Turkey.

								We acknowledge that

								genocides are not merely a relic of the distant <nobr>past&mdash;</nobr><wbr>among others,

								<a href="http://www.rwandanstories.org/genocide/hate_radio.html">Tutsi Rwandans</a> and

								<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_genocide">Bosnian Muslims</a>

								have been victims in our lifetimes.


								<p>

								Today we stand together to say: not on our watch, and never again.


								<p>

								We commit to the following actions:


								<ul>

								  <li>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.


								  <li>We will advocate within our organizations:

								    <ul>

								      <li>to minimize the collection and retention of data

								      that would facilitate ethnic or religious targeting.

								      <li>to scale back existing datasets

								      with unnecessary racial, ethnic, and national origin data.

								      <li>to responsibly destroy high-risk datasets and backups.

								      <li>to implement security and privacy best practices,

								      in particular,

								      for end-to-end encryption to be the default wherever possible.

								      <li>to demand appropriate legal process

								      should the government request that we turn over

								      user data collected by our organization, even in small amounts.

								    </ul>


								  <li>If we discover misuse of data that we consider illegal or unethical

								  in our organizations:

								    <ul>

								      <li>We will work with our colleagues and leaders to correct it.

								      <li>If we cannot stop these practices,

								      we will exercise our <a href="https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/state-and-local-updates/pages/california-whistleblowers.aspx">rights</a> and responsibilities to speak out publicly

								      and engage in <a href="https://www.theengineroom.org/responsible-data-leaks-and-whistleblowing/">responsible whistleblowing</a>

								      without endangering users.

								      <li>If we have the authority to do so,

								      we will use all available legal defenses to stop these practices.

								      <li>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.

								    </ul>


								  <li>We will raise awareness and ask critical questions

								  about the responsible and fair use of data and algorithms

								  beyond our organization and our industry.

								</ul>


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								Note: Signatories&rsquo; references to affiliated organizations below

								are for identification purposes

								and are not intended to imply an endorsement by the organization.

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								<p>Signed,</p>


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								<li>Akil Harris, First Look Media

								<li>Alec Perkins <!-- from GitHub user alecperkins -->

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/cubeghost">Alex Baldwin, Poncho</a> <!-- from GitHub user goosey -->

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/_alecook">Alex Cook, Software Engineer (Part-time Thought Leader)</a>

								<li>Alison Hodges, Founder, Erlea Documentation Professionals <!-- From GitHub user lamagnifica -->

								<li>Andreas Fuchs, Stripe

								<li>Andrew Bonventre, Google

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/whereandy">Andrew Cheung, Signal Sciences</a></li> <!--from Github user whereandy -->

								<li>Andrew Dunham, Stripe <!-- from GitHub user andrew-d -->

								<li>Andrew Losowsky, The Coral Project

								<li><a href="https://andrewmichaud.com">Andrew Michaud</a>, Quantcast <!-- from GitHub user andrewmichaud -->

								<li>Annie Tuan, Mobile Software Engineer

								<li>Asher Cohen <!-- from GitHub user Asheric -->

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/AsherLangton">Asher Langton</a>

								<li><a href="https://recompilermag.com">Audrey Eschright, Recompiler Media</a> <!-- from GitHub user aeschright -->

								<li><a href="https://keybase.io/heliostatic">Ben Cohen</a>

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/bnkrft">Ben Kraft</a>, Khan Academy

								<li>Ben Wood, Autodesk

								<li><a href="https://esham.io">Benjamin Esham, Ellucian</a> <!-- from GitHub user bdesham -->

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/barenakedbrady">Brady O'Connell</a></li> <!-- from GitHub user boconnell -->

								<li>Brian Geppert, metacode

								<li>Brian Jenkins, CTO, FoodCare

								<li><a href="https://brian.mastenbrook.net/">Brian Mastenbrook, AirStash</a>

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/briantrice">Brian T. Rice, Awake Networks</a>

								<li>Briar Rose Schreiber, Software Engineer, Board Member of Stumptown Syndicate <!-- from GitHub user ubiquill -->

								<li>Britton Watkins

								<li><a href="https://www.twitter.com/caseydunham">Casey Dunham</a> <!-- from GitHub user caseydunham -->

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisVermilion">Christopher Vermilion</a> <!-- from GitHub user cvermilion -->

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/daeken">Cody Brocious, Optiv Security</a>

								<li><a href="http://milk.com">Dan Bornstein, Computer Programmer</a>

								<li><a href="https://dankaminsky.com">Dan Kaminsky, Chief Scientist, White Ops</a>

								<li><a href="http://davemayo.is-a-geek.org">Dave Mayo, Software Developer, Harvard University</a>

								<li>David Beckley

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/davigoli">David Golightly, Software Developer, Substantial</a>

								<li>David Hartunian, Position Development <!-- from GitHub user dhartunian -->

								<li>David Nielsen <!-- from GitHub user attackcowboy -->

								<li>David Reid, Engineer, Fig <!-- from GitHub user dreid -->

								<li><a href="http://twitter.com/davidnwelton">David Welton</a></li> <!-- from Github user davidw -->

								<li>Don Marti, Mozilla <!-- from GitHub user dmarti -->

								<li><a href="http://twitter.com/donaldball">Donald Ball, SparkFund</a>

								<li>Drew Durbin, CEO, Wave

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/dperny">Drew Erny<a> <!-- from GitHub user dperny -->

								<li><a href="http://danielespeset.com">Daniel Espeset</a>, Etsy <!-- from GitHub user danielmendel -->

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/edropple">Ed Ropple, edboxes</a>

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/ecenanovic">Edin Cenanovic, Software Engineer</a> <!-- from GitHub user edinc -->

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/lcdpowell">Elsie Powell, 2U</a> <!-- from GitHub user embolalia -->

								<li><a href="https://emmah.net/">Emma Claire Humphries</a>, Mozilla Corporation <!-- from GitHub user emceeaich -->

								<li>Erik Ogan, Principal Engineer, <a href="https://www.change.org/">Change.org</a> <!-- from GitHub user erikogan -->

								<li>Erin Ptacek, Latacora

								<li>Ethan Schlenker, Twitter

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/brkattk">Erik Straub, Odd Networks</a> <!-- from GitHub user brkattk -->

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/FredericJacobs">Frederic Jacobs</a>, Security Engineer <!-- from GitHub user FredericJacobs -->

								<li>Geoffrey Irving, Google Brain <!-- from Github user girving -->

								<li>George Tankersley, Cloudflare

								<li><a href="http://haldean.org">Haldean Brown</a> <!-- from GitHub user haldean -->

								<li>Heather Rivers, Director of Engineering, Mode Analytics

								<li><a href="http://hollyallen.info/">Holly Allen</a> <!-- from GitHub user hollyallen -->

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/ingridavendano">Ingrid Avenda&ntilde;o, Uber</a>

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/janardanyri">Janardan Yri</a>

								<li>Jane Ruffino

								<li>Jeanine Adkisson, GitLab <!-- from GitHub user jneen -->

								<li>Jeffrey Stanton, SparkFund

								<li>Jen-Mei Wu, <a href="http://oaklandmakerspace.com/">Liberating Ourselves Locally</a> <!-- from GitHub user jenmei -->

								<li>Jenny Tong, Pumping Station: One

								<li>Jeremy Rauch, Latacora

								<li><a href="https://www.jesseadametz.com/">Jesse Adametz, Cloud Operations Engineer, Invoca</a> <!-- from GitHub user jadametz -->

								<li>Jesse Luehrs

								<li>Jesse Phelps

								<li><a href="http://joecrawford.com/">Joe Crawford</a>, Web Developer

								<li>John Firebaugh, Mapbox <!-- from GitHub user jfirebaugh -->

								<li><a href="https://jackmott.github.io/">John Mott</a>, Lead Software Developer, O'CONNORS</li> <!-- from GitHub user jackmott -->

								<li>Jonathan Bisson, UIC <!-- from Github user bjonnh -->

								<li>Jonathan Haddad, The Last Pickle

								<li>Josh Feldman

								<li><a href="http://www.joshuawise.com">Joshua Wise, Imaging Architect, NVIDIA Corporation</a>

								<li>Judy Tuan, Software Engineering Manager

								<li><a href="http://dotj.co">Julie T. Do, Obscura Digital</a> <!-- from GitHub user dotj -->

								<li>Justin T. Conroy, Pumping Station: One

								<li>Justin Falcone

								<li>Ka-Ping Yee, Engineer, Wave

								<li><a href="http://www.kaidalgleish.io/">Kai Dalgleish, Mapbox</a>

								<li><a href="https://www.OpenTechStrategies.com/">Karl Fogel, Partner, Open Tech Strategies LLC</a>

								<li>Karl-Rainer Blumenthal, Internet Archive <!-- Github user kblumenthal -->

								<li>Karl Schults, Engineer, Scribd <!-- GitHub user kschults -->

								<li><a href="https://karlstolley.com/">Karl Stolley, Associate Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology</a></li>

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/maybekatz">Katerina Marchán, npm, Inc.</a>

								<li><a href="http://keith.mcknig.ht">Keith McKnight</a>, Software Engineer, Splash

								<li>Kelly Buchanan

								<li>Kelly Shortridge

								<li>Kelsey Gilmore-Innis, Callisto

								<li><a href="https://kkinder.com/">Ken Kinder</a>, Developer</li>

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/kentbrew">Kent Brewster</a> <!-- from GitHub user kentbrew -->

								<li>Kent Quirk, Software Architect, The Achievement Network <!-- from GitHub user kentquirk -->

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/derivativeburke">Kevin Burke</a>, consultant <!-- from GitHub user kevinburke -->

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/kevrone">Kevin Cantwell, Timehop</a>

								<li><a href="https://neocities.org">Kyle Drake, Neocities</a> <!-- from GitHub user kyledrake -->

								<li>Laurel Ruhlen, SPINS <!-- from Github user lruhlen -->

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/hypatiadotca">Leigh Honeywell, Slack</a>

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/rcoder">Lennon Day-Reynolds</a>, Stripe

								<li>Lincoln Quirk, Founder, Wave.com

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/lindseybieda">Lindsey Bieda</a>

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/saikofish">Lou Huang</a>, Mapzen

								<li>lvh, Latacora

								<li>Maggie Ronan

								<li>Mano Marks, Docker

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/marcprecipice">Marc Hedlund</a>, Skyliner <!-- from GitHub user precipice -->

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/marcslove">Marc Love</a>, Carbon Five <!-- from GitHub user marclove -->

								<li><a href="http://anarchivi.st/">Mark A. Matienzo, Stanford University Libraries</a>

								<li>Marlena Compton, IBM

								<li>Martin Robinson, Igalia

								<li><a href="http://twitter.com/mjg59">Matthew Garrett, CoreOS</a> <!-- from GitHub user mjg59 -->

								<li><a href="http://twitter.com/mmmaaatttttt">Matthew Lane, Rithm School</a>

								<li><a href="http://matthewmcvickar.com">Matthew McVickar</a>

								<li>Matthew Pfeffer

								<li>Melinda Jacobs

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/0xabad1dea">Melissa Elliott</a>

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/downey">Michael Downey</a>

								<li>Michael Jeremiah Curry

								<li>Michael Wilber, Cornell Tech

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/mmorri">Mike Morris</a></li> <!-- from github user mikemorris -->

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/__nolski__">Michael Nolan</a>, <a href="https://giphy.com">Giphy</a>


								<li>Mike Perry, Tor Project

								<li>Mikeal Rogers, Node.js Foundation <!-- from GitHub user mikeal -->

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/mindypreston">Mindy Preston, Docker</a>

								<li>Molly de Blanc <!-- from GitHub user mollydb -->

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/morganastra">Morgan Astra</a>  <!-- from Github user morganastra -->

								<li>Nate Parsons, Planet Labs, Inc.

								<li>Nathan Sorenson, SparkFund

								<li><a href="http://neilk.net/">Neil Kandalgaonkar</a>, Sauce Labs

								<li>Nick Sullivan, Cloudflare

								<li>Nikko Patten-Weinstein, SparkFund

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/nthall">Noah Hall</a>

								<li>Noel Hidalgo, Executive Director, <a href="https://beta.nyc">BetaNYC</a> <!-- from GitHub user noneck -->

								<li><a href="https://ironholds.org/"> Oliver Keyes, Senior Data Scientist</a> <!-- from Github user okeyes-r7 -->

								<li><a href="https://patrickod.com/">Patrick O'Doherty, Intercom, Noisebridge</a> <!--- from Github user patrickod -->

								<li>Paul Kruczynski

								<li>Peter Eckersley, Chief Computer Scientist, Electronic Frontier Foundation

								<li>Peter Reilly, Software Engineer

								<li>Philip James, Stripe

								<li>Philip Porada, Systems Administrator

								<li>Richard Esteban Martinez Hughes, MIT Class of 2008

								<li>Richo Healey, Stripe

								<li><a href="http://gaal.co">Robert Gaal, TQ</a> <!-- from GitHub user robertgaal -->

								<li><a href="http://ryandebeasi.com/">Ryan DeBeasi, STAT</a> <!-- from GitHub user rdebeasi -->

								<li>Ryan Sablosky, Bard College

								<li><a href="https://twitter.com/tilmonedwards">Sean T. Edwards, Software Engineer</a>

								<li>Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Indiana University

								<li><a href="http://datawranglr.com">Roy Pardee</a>, Group Health Research Institute</li>

								<li>Seth Price, RS &amp; GS Engineer, Planet, Inc.

								<li> Shaun Carland, Software Engineer, Yesware

								<li>Shauna Gordon-McKeon

								<li>Sheila Miguez, Canonical

								<li>Shelly X Ni <!-- from GitHub user shellicious -->

								<li>Siena Aguayo, Software Engineer, Indiegogo

								<li>Stefan Hayden, Shutterstock

								<li><a href="http://stephenwoods.net">Stephen Woods, Salesforce</a> <!-- from GitHub user saw -->

								<li><a href="http://twitter.com/steven_johnson">Steven Johnson, Google</a> <!-- from Github user steven-johnson -->

								<li><a href="http://stuartgeiger.com">Stuart Geiger, UC-Berkeley Institute for Data Science</a></li> <!-- from Github user staeiou -->

								<li>Ted Scharff, Planet Labs

								<li>Teresa Murphy, Marketing Associate, Indiegogo

								<li>Tom Hutchinson <!-- from GitHub user th5 -->

								<li>Thomas H. Ptacek, Latacora

								<li>Tim Chevalier, Google

								<li><a href="http://kemp59f.info">Timothy Kempf, Meadow</a> <!-- from GitHub user Fauntleroy -->

								<li>Tom Tanaka <a href="https://github.com/tomatell">Software Engineer</a> <!-- from GiHub user -->

								<li>Todd Siegel <!-- from Github user toddsiegel -->

								<li>Tymm Zerr

								<li><a href="http://frameshiftconsulting.com/">Valerie Aurora, Frame Shift Consulting</a>

								<li><a href="https://vito.io">Victor Gama</a>, Software Developer, D3 Estúdio

								<li>William Wnekowicz, Developer in Residence, KPCB

								<li><a href="https://diracdeltas.github.io">Yan Zhu, Security Engineer</a>


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								<h2>How to sign this pledge</h2>


								<p>

								If you would like to join us in signing this pledge,

								we ask that you send us your name and

								optional position, affiliation, and/or URL,

								exactly as you would like to be listed here,

								in one of the following ways:

								<ul>

								  <li><a href="https://github.com/neveragaindottech/neveragaindottech.github.io/">Send us a pull request on GitHub.</a>

								  <li><a href="https://twitter.com/neveragaintech">Direct message us on Twitter (our DMs are open).</a>

								  <li>If neither of these options are possible,

								  please email neveragaindottech at gmail dot com,

								  but please note that this may delay your signature

								  as we must validate your identity.

								  Please send us some way for us to confirm your identity,

								  such as a LinkedIn profile or a homepage.

								</ul>


								<h2>Additional resources</h2>


								<p>If you&rsquo;re reading this and want to take action beyond signing,

								some things you can do include:</p>


								<h3>Donate</h3>

								<ul>

								  <li><a href="https://www.aclu.org/">American Civil Liberties Union</a>

								  <li><a href="https://www.cair.com/">Council on American-Islamic Relations</a>

								  <li><a href="http://www.advancingjustice-alc.org/programs/national-security-and-civil-rights-2/">Asian Law Caucus</a>

								  <li><a href="https://www.splcenter.org/">Southern Poverty Law Center</a>

								  <li><a href="http://mpowerchange.org">MPower Change: Muslim Grassroots Movement</a>

								  <li><a href="http://www.drumnyc.org/">DRUM – Desis Rising Up and Moving</a>

								  <li><a href="http://centerformediajustice.org/">Center for Media Justice</a>

								  <li><a href="https://www.propublica.org/">ProPublica</a>

								</ul>


								<h3>Volunteer</h3>

								<ul>

								  <li><a href="http://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/">Showing Up for Racial Justice</a>

								</ul>


								<h3>Legal assistance and referrals</h3>

								<ul>

								  <li><a href="https://www.eff.org/pages/legal-assistance">Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Cooperating Attorneys List</a>

								  <li>State and local lawyer referral services

								  <ul>

								    <li>San Francisco Bay Area:

								    <ul>

								      <li><a href="https://www.sfbar.org/lawyerreferrals/">San Francisco</a>

								      <li><a href="https://www.smcba.org/For%20the%20Public/How%20We%20Can%20Help%20You/LRS.aspx">San Mateo County</a>

								      <li><a href="https://www.sccba.com/?lrs">Santa Clara County</a>

								    </ul>

								    <li><a href="http://apps.americanbar.org/legalservices/lris/directory/home.html">All others: See the American Bar Association’s Lawyer Referral Directory</a>

								  </ul>


								  <li>State labor law enforcement agencies

								  <ul>

								    <li><a href="https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/dlseRetaliation.html">State of California Labor Commissioner’s Retaliation Complaint Investigation Unit</a>

								    <li><a href="http://www.dfeh.ca.gov/Employment/">California Department of Fair Employment and Housing</a>

								  </ul>

								</ul>


								<h3>Other resources</h3>

								<ul>

								  <li><a href="https://responsibledata.io/">Responsible Data Forum</a> (data ethics)

								  <li><a href="https://datasociety.net/">Data &amp; Society</a> (research on social impact of data)

								  <li><a href="http://www.acm.org/about-acm/acm-code-of-ethics-and-professional-conduct">ACM Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice</a> (and <a href="http://ethics.acm.org/code-of-ethics/code-2018/">revisions committee</a>)

								  <li><a href="https://ssd.eff.org/">EFF&rsquo;s Surveillance Self-Defense Guide</a>

								</ul>


								<h3>Further reading</h3>

								<ul>

								  <li><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/10/trump-election-autocracy-rules-for-survival/">Autocracy: Rules for Survival</a> by Masha Gessen

								  <li><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/11/27/trump-realism-vs-moral-politics-choice-we-face/">Trump: The Choice We Face</a> by Masha Gessen

								  <li><a href="https://thecorrespondent.com/5696/were-heading-into-dark-times-this-is-how-to-be-your-own-light-in-the-age-of-trump/1611114266432-e23ea1a6">We’re heading into dark times. This is how to be your own light in the Age of Trump</a> by Sarah Kendzior</a>

								  <li><a href="http://qz.com/846940/a-yale-history-professors-20-point-guide-to-defending-democracy-under-a-trump-presidency/">A Yale history professor’s powerful, 20-point guide to defending democracy under a Trump presidency</a> by Timothy Snyder

								</ul>


								<h3>Footnotes</h3>


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								  <li id="footnote1">From <a href="https://thecorrespondent.com/5696/were-heading-into-dark-times-this-is-how-to-be-your-own-light-in-the-age-of-trump/1611114266432-e23ea1a6">We&rsquo;re heading into dark times. This is how to be your own light in the Age of Trump</a> by Sarah Kendzior

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