More than 200 employees of technology companies including Alphabet Inc's Google and Twitter Inc have pledged not to help US president-elect Donald Trump's administration track people based on their religion or assist in mass deportations.
The employees signed an open letter at neveragain.tech on Tuesday, rebuking ideas floated by Trump during the campaign trail to build a data registry to track people.
The protest, which began with about 60 signatures but had more than tripled within hours of publication, comes a day before several technology company executives are due to meet with the real-estate developer in New York City.
"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," reads the letter, signed by a mix of engineers, designers and business executives.
"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."
The letter vows to not participate in creating databases of identifying information for the US government on the basis of race, religion or national origin.
Alphabet Chief Executive Officer Larry Page, Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook, Facebook Inc Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and Amazon.com Inc CEO Jeff Bezos and Oracle Corp CEO Safra Catz are among those expected to attend the summit with Trump's transition team, according to two technology industry sources.
