The new contact tracing tool is an essential part of the response to the Covid-19 pandemic. But it raises serious questions of its own.
The contracting trend has transformed corporate America into a two-tier economic system of company employees with secure jobs and good benefits and contracted workers with poor benefits who lack job security.
Designs, software, and patented ideas, which are at the core of Apple's business model, are a perfect vehicle for tax avoidance.
The fact that your company gives you good free lunches and shuttles to work and nice paycheck does not change the fact that you could get more by negotiating together, as a union. Anyone smart enough to get a job at Google is smart enough to grasp these facts.
Apple Computer is the current champion of privacy against U.S. government attempts to expand its spying on us. The company, a frequent NSA and FBI collaborator in the past, finds itself in the strange position of confronting a federal court order to dislodge its iPhone security system, an action Apple insists will cripple encryption as a privacy-protection measure.
Security specialists say the case carries enormous consequences, for privacy and the competitiveness of U.S. businesses, and that the National Security Council directive, which has not been previously reported, shows that technology companies underestimated the resolve of the U.S. government to access encrypted data.
Apple products are so beautiful, they look like they're made by robots. In fact, they're made by inhumanly intense labor that has driven Chinese workers to suicide.
Conditions for 70,000 workers at Pegatron plants allegedly worse than those reported in the Foxconn scandal.
Apple might have abandoned manufacturing supplier Foxconn in the wake of a scandal over deplorable working conditions in its Chinese factories, but it seems that labor rights violations are also rife at Pegatron, its new partner.
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