Business Ethics

As many children died and are injured in the cobalt mine of Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), located in  Central Africa, big tech companies like Microsft, Apple, Google, and Tesla are being potentially sued by the International Rights Advocates, an NGO that fights for human rights, on behalf of the Congolese family of those miners.  Many of these miners are children who are forced into working in the mines with barely any wages paid. The children are denied any basic schooling or education while being pushed in the only form of survival. This poses a very high threat to their health and life, as they are not provided with any basic safety gear. As basic human rights are abused, the owner of these cobalt mines obtains a huge amount of profit by supplying to the major tech firms. Cobalt is used in the production of lithium-ion batteries, popularly known for powering smartphones, laptops, and cars. DRC has the biggest deposit of cobalt in the world, it produces 60%...

On 14 January 2020, the report from the Norwegian Consumer Council, a non-profit organization, which is funded by the government, disclosed that numerous apps are sharing user data. The Agency researched 10 mobile apps and found that these apps collected valuable user data and shared it with several advertising companies. The data contained information like interests, habits, behaviors, gender, and age of the consumers and conjointly their GPS location and the IP address. These days where it is hard to find real "love" or "companionship", people use dating apps to search out those things. Although it is not that popular in India it is very common for westerners to use these apps. However, these companies are violating laws by selling the sensitive personal information of their users, which is incredibly wrong and unethical. According to the Norwegian Consumer Council, the dating apps such as Grindr, Tinder, and OkCupid were selling information that "...