Archives: Incidents
| Date | Company | Accusation | City / Area / Country | Source | Tags | Media |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29/05/2013 | Dongguan Jinchuan Electronic Company, Ltd. (Supplier Of ASUS) (Owned by 3CEMS) | Labor concerns at factory producing motherboards: multiple children below the age of 16, 12-hour daily shifts, even more if production quotas aren't met. | Dongguan, Guangdong, China | China Labor Watch | Child Labor, Excessive Work Hours | |
| 16/01/2012 | KS Drilling (Subsidiary of KS Energy) | Two KS Drilling workers die after 'KS Endeavor' jackup rig explodes during drilling of an exploration well for Chevron. | Nigeria | Reuters | Deaths, Negligence, Occupational Hazard | |
| 20/04/2010 | (BP (Beyond Petroleum)) (Transocean) (Cameron International) (Halliburton) (Mitsui Group) (QBE Insurance) (Anadarko Petroleum) | Drilling rig 'Deepwater Horizon' on lease to BP explodes and catches fire - 11 killed, 17 injured; 4.9 million oil barrels leaked; local wildlife, fishing and tourism immensely damaged; potential health hazards for clean-up workers and coastal residents; multiple lawsuits for companies involved; BP pleaded guilty to criminal charges; reparations and damages - over £20 billion. | Gulf of Mexico | US Department of Justice, Business & Human Rights Resource Center, Financial Times | Deaths, Injuries & Diseases, Occupational Hazard, Pollution | |
| 05/05/2014 | NXP Semiconductors (Supplier Of Apple) | NXP Semiconductors accused of firing 24 union workers for union activity. | Cabuyao, Laguna, Calabarzon, Philippines | IndustriALL | Union Repression | |
| 19/08/2014 | (Suppliers Of Telenor Group) | Telenor finds incidents of child labor (as young as 12 years of age) at suppliers helping it build Myanmar’s first national mobile phone network. | Myanmar | Financial Times | Child Labor, Occupational Hazard | |
| 13/07/2014 - 07/07/2014 | Former Twitter employee sues company for wrongful termination and age discrimination. | San Francisco, CA, United States | Daily Mail | Discrimination | ||
| 09/08/2012 | Google to pay $22.5m fine for tracking users of Apple's iPhone, iPad and Mac computers by circumventing privacy protections on the Safari web browser for several months at the end of 2011 and into 2012. | United States | The Guardian | Privacy Invasion | ||
| 26/01/2013 | Group of UK users sue Google, alleging that it misused private information, breached confidence and breached the 1998 Data Protection Act. | UK | The Guardian | Privacy Invasion | ||
| 27/09/2012 | Foxconn Technology Group (Supplier Of Apple) | Foxconn workers allege dehumanizing treatment, bullying, and awful management in company factories and dorms. | China | Reuters | Abusive Management, Beatings & Violence | |
| 23/02/2011 | United Win Technology Limited (Supplier Of Apple) (Supplier Of HTC) (Supplier Of Nokia) (Supplier Of Motorola) (Subsidiary of Wintek Corporation) | 137 workers poisoned following exposure to n-hexane, a chemical used to clean mobile screens, Apple acknowledges. Other sources claim higher worker number. Workers hospitalized. Symptoms included nervous damage, muscular weakness or atrophy, paralysis, dizziness and others. Incidents begun mid-July 2009. | Suzhou, Jiangsu, China | BBC, Wikileaks, The Guardian | Injuries & Diseases, Occupational Hazard |