Tech giants Microsoft and IBM have said they would refuse to help create a registry of Muslim Americans under Donald Trump's presidency, reports independent.co.uk. Trump has previously discussed a potential religion-based register during the campaign. Although he has rowed back on his statements, a prospective cabinet member has since been photographed carrying plans for "extreme vetting" and questioning for Muslims.
Hundreds of individual workers from Silicon Valley and beyond have also signed a pledge on neveragain.tech to say they would refuse to work on building a religious registry.
 The day after chief executive Satya Nadella and other technology leaders met with Trump in New York, a Microsoft spokesman told Buzzfeed: "We’ve been clear about our values. We oppose discrimination and we wouldn’t do any work to build a registry of Muslim Americans."
And IBM, which employs some 380,000 people, said: "IBM would not work on this hypothetical project.
It follows official commitments from Apple, Google, Uber and Facebook.
"Our company has long-standing values and a strong track record of opposing discrimination against anyone on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation or religion. That perspective has not changed, and never will."
Trump faced criticism for allowing his daughter Ivanka and sons Don Jr and Eric to sit in on this week's technology summit, which included Apple CEO Tim Cook, Alphabet's Larry Page, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk as guest, as well as Nadella.
“You would think that if he is planning to come out with a solution of turning everything over to his children, that he would separate his children immediately from the transition. But he’s not even doing that, so it’s hard to see how this fits into any plan he may have for trying to avoid conflicts of interests,”  Larry Noble, the general counsel of the Campaign Legal Center, said.
Twitter became the first of nine internet companies to confirm it would not sell its services to assist in President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed Muslim registry.
The Intercept’s Sam Biddle asked nine companies, including Facebook, Google and management and technology consultants Booz Allen Hamilton, whether they would sell their services to help set up a Muslim registry.
“Would [name of company], if solicited by the Trump administration, sell any goods, services, information, or consulting of any kind to help facilitate the creation of a national Muslim registry, a project which has been floated tentatively by the president-elect’s transition team?” the Intercept asked.
Twitter was the only company to respond with a clear “no.” It linked to a blog post detailing the company's policy on using its data to profile people in light of recent reports its data has been used for surveillance. “As a company, our commitment to social justice is core to our mission and well established. And our policies in this area are long-standing,” the post read. “Using Twitter’s Public APIs or data products to track or profile protesters and activists is absolutely unacceptable and prohibited.” “To be clear: We prohibit developers using the Public APIs and Gnip data products from allowing law enforcement — or any other entity — to use Twitter data for surveillance purposes. Period,” it added.