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Apple Accused Of Working With A Supplier That Used Child Labor
The Washington Post and Tech Transparency Project have published a report on the activities of one of Apple’s suppliers. It says that the Chinese company uses forced labor. According to The Information, the supplier also used child labor.
Former employees who worked with Apple’s suppliers said the company has a number of problems in its supply chain. Few manufacturers meet Apple’s quality and scope standards, and are ready to fill orders quickly. In this regard, those companies that still work with the corporation are doing everything to get its orders.
In 2013, Apple discovered that one of its suppliers, Suyin Electronics, the firm that made HDMI and USB ports for the MacBook line, had hired underage workers. The manufacturer promised to address the violation, but subsequent Apple investigation found three more minors, including one 14-year-old, on Suyin’s assembly lines. Although Apple refused to work with the enterprise on new contracts, cooperation on the existing ones lasted almost three years.
This is not the only example of infringement among suppliers. Apple has investigated Biel Crystal, a company that makes glass screens for the iPhone. The corporation found that health and safety was weak at all levels of government and called for more than two dozen corrective measures. However, a year later, the improvements have not been implemented. Apple continued to partner with Biel Crystal, in part because it would otherwise have only one screen supplier to dictate terms and prices.
Interestingly, the same second supplier of Lens Technology screens, as it turned out, uses forced labor of the Uyghurs (the indigenous people of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of the PRC).
Although Apple says it has cut ties with manufacturers many times in the past, the company’s reporting suggests otherwise, media noted. Since the release of the first iPhone in 2007, the company has terminated contracts with 22 suppliers. However, the corporation’s supply chain includes more than 2 thousand companies.
In December, the Taiwanese Wistron iPhone factory in Narasipur, India riots began. About 2 thousand employees staged pogroms on the territory of the factory. The reason was that many employees did not receive the full promised salary.
Apple has launched its own investigation against Wistron. The corporation has suspended cooperation with the company until the management has restored labor relations with its employees. Apple also demanded that Wistron restructure its HR and accounting teams.
A preliminary investigation revealed that Wistron was unable to implement proper time management processes, resulting in wage delays for some of the factory workers in October and November 2020.
Many have heard claims that Windows 11 is heavily “spying” on users. As a recent YouTube video on The PC Security Channel shows, Windows 11 does send massive amounts of data to its own and third-party servers.
Worst of all, the OS does this before the user even installs or opens their first app. The author of the channel used the Wireshark application to analyze network activity on two “clean” versions of Windows.
The first was the brand new Windows 11, and the second was the good old Windows XP. A quick analysis revealed that Windows 11 connects to many third-party servers and services, most of which do nothing but track for ads. And it’s worth noting that all of these actions take place on every Windows 11 computer out of the box, without prompting the user and before he tries to use the Internet.
Xiaomi is just getting ready for a big international presentation, where the flagship Xiaomi 13 Lite with a Leica camera will become the main highlight of the program. Meanwhile, information about another interesting model of the series appeared on the network – the Xiaomi 13 Lite smartphone.
Details and unofficial renderings were shared by network whistleblower billbil_kun, who previously celebrated predictions that came true in various areas, including the appearance of the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra and the Microsoft-Bethesda collaboration.
So, the Xiaomi 13 Lite smartphone should become the international version of the Chinese Xiaomi Civi 2. According to the source, the most affordable model in the Xiaomi series will debut on the international market at the same time as Xiaomi 13 and Xiaomi 13 Pro at a presentation in Barcelona. At the same time, pre-orders will open only on March 8.
Presumably, the price of Xiaomi 13 Lite for Europe will be 549 euros for the version with 256 GB of flash memory. A 128 GB version is also expected, but the price is still unknown. It is also noted that there will be two color options, like Xiaomi 13 Pro.
The developers have created a new program for the police based on the DALL-E 2 neural network. It creates “hyper-realistic” sketches of suspects and works much faster than systems for creating conventional sketches.
“At the current stage, we are still trying to determine if this project will be viable for real world use or not. To do this, we plan to contact the police departments to get the initial data on which we can check this.“, the authors write.
However, AI ethicists and researchers have told the media that such systems could reinforce various one-time or gender biases, as well as complicate policing.
“Studies have shown that people remember faces as a whole, not just individual features. The process of creating a portrait based on the description of individual facial features, as an AI program does, can lead to a face that is strikingly different from the face of a criminal. Unfortunately, once the witness sees the created image, that image can replace a vague memory of the real suspect in their mind.‘, say the experts.
Earlier it was reported that Baidu is preparing an analogue of ChatGPT called Ernie Bot.
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