Dying For An iPhone


Who made your iPhone? Sure, the back of the box says "Designed in California" - but who were the men and women who assembled your phone? How well are they treated? Are they paid well? Are they trapped in a living hell where many of them feel the only way out is suicide? Christoph Lutz@lutzid"achieve productivity or the sun will no longer rise." #foxconn slogan "motivating" their workers; fascinating talk by jenny chan #oxict4d❤️ 0💬 0🔁 017:07 - Tue 03 February 2015 This is the question pose…

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Big Data As A Lethal Weapon


Yesterday I attended an OII talk on the Ethical Treatment of Data in New Digital Landscapes. Amy O'Donnell from Oxfam lead a discussion about how the charity is seeking to improve the way that Aid Agencies deal with the data they collect. Oxfam collects data for many different reasons - sometimes it is incidental (for example the bank account details it needs to make payments), sometime it is deliberate (for example when conducting a survey about how aid is used). Protecting personal data…

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