Good morning. If the Google outage made you re-think about your over dependance on Google, here are some alternatives I’d recommend you to try:
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Slides: Pitch
When you make iPhones but don’t get paid enough to buy one.
What happened: Complaining of reduced wages, employees of an iPhone manufacturing plant near Bengaluru damaged the plant’s furniture, assembly lines and even tried to set fire on parked cars.
Wistron Corporation, a Taiwan-based tech company had set up this plant, and many others, early this year to make iPhone SE.
Talking to Times Of India, an engineering grad who works there said he was promised a salary of ₹21k a month but it was reduced to ₹16k and then to ₹12k.
Behind the scenes: Karnataka’s labour minister says Wistron has ~1200 permanent employees and 8900 contract employees. And Wistron seems to have handed down the salary to contract companies, who haven’t handed it down to the employees for 3 months.
After effects:
Karnataka Govt issued Wistron a notice to clear all salary dues within the next 3 days.
Apple said it has teams on-ground investigating at Wistron’s facility. And that they’re dedicated to ensuring everyone in its supply chain is treated with dignity and respect.
In a regulatory filing in Taiwan, Wistron said it “always abides by the law, and fully supports and is cooperating with relevant authorities”
Wistron, in a police report, accused more than 5,000 contract workers and some 2,000 unknown people of destruction of property worth 4.38 billion rupees ($60 million). The police arrested 149 people while also searching for more.
Apple launches privacy labels on App Stores.
What are they: Every app page on the iOS App Store will now have a section about what data it collects about you. This is what Apple calls privacy labels, inspired from nutrition labels.
Backstory: Apple announced it back in June during the WWDC. Last month, Apple forced developers to provide this information by Dec 8 or risk losing the ability to update their apps.
How it works: Developers fill out all data their app collects, grouped into 3 categories:
“data used to track you” = data from this app which is linked with another data from another company used for targeting ads. Like: personal information, location data etc.
“data linked to you” = data which used to identify you, linked to your account on the app and your ad profile
“data not linked to you” = data which is not linked to you in any identifiable fashion. Like: data collected for optimising the app.
There are some problems:
Some developers fear that these labels are too broad and can make users think their apps tracks more data than they actually do.
Specifically, WhatsApp argues that, although it cannot see people’s messages and precise location, they’ve to use the same labels as apps that do.
Apple’s own apps, like Messages, also have their own privacy labels. But since these apps cannot be deleted, their privacy labels are available only on the web. Not on the App Store.
You should read: Ben Thompson’s Privacy Labels and Look-alike audiences.
Check this out: Data Lotto
MSCHF’s Data Lotto is a lottery game which takes your & thousands of others data (name, email and phone number) and sells it to highest bidder. All the profits go to one lucky person from the list.
347k people are playing and the current prize is ~$3.7k.
Although I won’t recommend you to, but if you want to play Data Lotto:
That was all. You can reply to let me know how this was.
Cheers,
Kunal Mishra.