Sometimes the family had paid a bribe to avoid violating the national policy

Source: http://www.crazydaysandnights.net

They Don’t Exist

This A or A+ list CEO has been making the rounds of TV and other media in recent weeks, calling out his younger counterpart for questionable data practices.

I don’t know if it’s ironic exactly, though it does sound funny coming from the head of a major company with a long and well known history of labor abuses in a certain very populous country. What’s less well known is that our CEO was a driving force behind the offshoring of so much production.

The public reason is money, which is always a factor, but as CDAN readers know there is often a private, and even in some cases secret reason.

You see, when the CEO is in country, he likes to visit barely legal nationals of a certain se-x.

Or rather, they say they are, and we all hope they’re that, at least.

This country famously keeps tabs on all births, but out in the countryside especially they’re not always recorded.

Sometimes the family had paid a bribe to avoid violating the national policy, and sometimes it’s just bureaucratic incompetence.

In any event there’s no record of how old they are, or even that they exist.

And just as the industrial revolution brought the rural masses to cities in the nineteenth century West, this country’s cities have been thronged by migrants looking for work in recent decades.

Some of them find it, including at places like the one where this CEO’s products are made, but it is often low paying.

The toil is miserable, and more than a few have killed themselves.

Others find that they can make much more money providing services to wealthy foreigners – especially those with a singular preference for young men of this particular ethnicity, and even nation of origin.

In the CEO’s community, there’s a term for it.

A list CEO: Tim Cook – Apple

Younger counterpart: Mark Zuckerberg

Populous country: China

Mark Zuckerberg was prepared to call out Tim Cook and Apple for being hypocrites

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Apple CEO Tim Cook have been taking small potshots at one another. A few weeks back, Cook got the ball rolling when he said that he’s never been a big proponent of any service that houses detailed profiles of its users. In a broad sense, Cook took swipes at any service where users are leveraged for advertising dollars.

“We can make a ton of money if customers were our product,” Cook said in an interview late last month. “We have elected not to do that.”

When specifically asked what he would do if he found himself in Zuckerberg’s position, Cook replied: “I wouldn’t be in this situation.”

Not too long after, Zuckerberg sat down for an interview with Ezra Klein where he took umbrage with Cook’s remarks.

“You know,” Zuckerberg added, “I find that argument that, if you’re not paying that somehow we can’t care about you to be extremely glib and not at all aligned with the truth.”

With that as a backdrop, an eagle-eyed AP photographer observed that Zuckerberg’s notes during his appearance on Capitol Hill yesterday included a few blurbs on Apple’s own privacy practices. Presumably, Zuckerberg was prepared to lay into Apple should the need arise, though that never ended up happening.-

One portion in particular notes that there are “lots of stories about apps misusing Apple data, never seen Apple notify people.”

Another bullet point references the fact that logging in to an app with Facebook is, in many ways, no different than installing an app on an iPhone.

“On data,” the point reads, “when you install an app on your iPhone, you give it access to some information, just like when you login with FB.” – Source