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In some countries, including the United States, potential employers are not going to tell you why they didn't hire you because they don't want to open themselves to potential litigation. Any information they give you could be used if you decided to sue them for discriminatory hiring practices, even if they aren't actually doing that. The less information you have, the safer they are. And it's not a question of whether they would lose the lawsuit, but whether they would have to pay a lawyer thousands of dollars to fight it. So any smart employer will STFU.
Also, they have no duty or moral obligation to tell you anything. If you want to know why you didn't get hired usually you can do so by talking to a friend or acquaintance who works in the field. Show them your resume and the job posting, and they can tell you if there are obvious weak points. If there aren't any obvious weak points, either the job listing was vacuous or there were too many applicants. Or else the application process is set up like total shit in which case you don't want to work for that company anyway.