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Apple gets a lot of focus on it that other companies do not. Ex. Headlines often focus on Apple when revealing some of Foxconn's worst labor practices. But sto
by ribosometronome 5y ago
Apple gets a lot of focus on it that other companies do not.
Ex. Headlines often focus on Apple when revealing some of Foxconn's worst labor practices. But stories about Foxconn using child labor to build Alexa devices, and the person who blew the whistle on that being tortured and put in jail for revealing it, went fairly under the radar in comparison. It's definitely a good thin that unethical labor practices being used to build our stuff is discussed, just the headlines and initial focus might lead laymen to believe one American hardware company is causing this, rather than most.
- aaomidi 5y agoWith more power, comes more responsibility. Apple is going to always be under the magnifying glass because they are just so much "bigger".
- ribosometronome 5y agoFor sure. I meant to add that sort of sentiment but spaced. There is definitely a level of "poor Apple, lets break out the tiniest violin for them". It's hard to cry over the world's largest public corporation getting more scrutiny than some others.
- stefan_ 5y agoApple coopted every iPhone into a global surveillance network for the benefit of throwaway keychain tokens. That's why.
- jdminhbg 5y agoEvery iPhone (and Android and dumbphone) was coopted into a global surveillance network from the very beginning.
- Andrew_nenakhov 5y agoPreviously, it didn't help random creeps to find home address of a girl he saw in a grocery store. Now, with AirTags it is rather trivial. Thanks, Apple.
- jdminhbg 5y agoSo trivial it never happens.
- wang_li 5y agoIt was all over the tech news space back in November that a woman was alerted to one that was moving with her. Someone attached it to her car. And again in January. https://www.wbrc.com/2021/11/18/woman-discovers-tracking-device-her-vehicle-after-receiving-iphone-alert/ https://www.wbrc.com/2021/11/18/woman-discovers-tracking-dev... https://www.insideedition.com/atlanta-woman-cant-find-apple-airtag-on-her-car-thats-tracking-her-every-move-72629 https://www.insideedition.com/atlanta-woman-cant-find-apple-...
- jdminhbg 5y agoYou'll note that there's never ever a culprit in a single one of these stories, and nobody ever successfully carries out the crime by actually showing up to an apartment or cornering someone in their car. It's classic urban legend stuff. Would you expect people to sometimes get away with committing a crime like stalking? Yes. Would you expect every single person who commits stalking in this way to always, without exception, get away with it? Of course not. The parsimonious explanation is that the vast majority of these stories are simple misunderstandings, like someone accidentally dropping one somewhere.
- Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago> simple misunderstandings, like someone accidentally dropping one somewhere. The uniquity of technology gives real stalkers this nice excuse. How convenient!
- bloomark 5y ago> But stories about Foxconn using child labor to build Alexa devices ... went fairly under the radar in comparison This specific instance might be true, I don't know. But it seems incorrect to base an argument off Apple getting less/more coverage than a company like Amazon.
- dannyr 5y agoApple has scale. Tile has similar functionalities but it doesn't have a large network that Apple's IPhone has. It's going to be very hard to use Tile to stalk people.