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Microsoft, Sony, Volkswagen and Daimler Among Tech Giants Named in Amnesty Int Child Labor Abuse Report
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 23:00
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The cobalt in your smartphone’s battery could have been sourced with child labor, according to a new report from Amnesty International.
The human rights organization traced the sale of cobalt, a main component in lithium-ion batteries, back to mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo and found that children as young as seven are working there to unearth the valuable mineral. Apple, Sam, which claims those companies have not been thorough enough when it comes to understanding who is mining cobalt for their products
If you KNOW about it, you condone it?
