It is not the first time, nor unfortunately it will be the last, in which we talk about such unpleasant aspects as child exploitation or human rights violations, not only in companies that work for Apple, but in companies that They work for the majority of technology companies in the world.
According to CNET, the United States Department of Commerce has added 11 Chinese companies to the list of companies accused of violating human rights. Of these 11 startups, one of them works not just for Apple, but also for Microsoft, Amazon, Dell and General Motors.
It is the supplier Nanchang O-Fim Tech, a company that is exploiting minority groups of Muslims in an area of the country known for Uyghur Autonomous Region of the Xijiang.
These 11 companies that have become part of the unfortunate list of companies accused of repeatedly violating human rights, force the inhabitants of this region to work without receiving financial compensation, collects your biometric data, genetic analysis, arbitrarily detains them… As stated by Wilbur Ross, US Trade Secret.
As Ross states:
This action will ensure that our products and technologies are not used in the despicable offensive of the Chinese Communist Party against the defenseless Muslim minority populations.
Nanchang O-Film Tech manufactures cameras, fingerprint sensors and touch screens mainly although it has not been released what is the concrete relationship with Apple.
Every year, Apple publishes a report with a list of the top 200 vendors it works with, suppliers that must comply with a series of requirements and among which do not include child exploitation, human rights violations, that the raw material comes from countries in conflict ...
Last March, The Information newspaper published an article in which denounced both Nanchang O-Film and BOE Technologies de abusing the inhabitants of this northwestern region of China. The United States Department of Commerce has only confirmed this.