Conflict Minerals and Blood Tech
June 27th, 2010
Great post from Joey deVilla about the hundreds of millions of dollars that flow each year from high tech companies to the ugliest warlords in the world. Don’t you just wish people at the G8/G20 in Toronto (the suits and the scufflers) had been talking about this? And don’t you just hope someone will bring it up the next time Steve or Steve gets up on stage?
There was a story about this topic last year on Australia’s ABC’s foreign correspondent which was very interesting. You can watch the video of it from here:
http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2009/s2680172.htm
Someone asked Steve #2.
His response:
“… We require all of our suppliers to certify in writing that they use conflict few [sic] materials. But honestly there is no way for them to be sure. Until someone invents a way to chemically trace minerals from the source mine, it’s a very difficult problem.
Sent from my iPhone”
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/06/steve-jobs-iphone4/