US accuses supplier for Amazon, Apple, Dell, GM, Microsoft of human rights abuses

[PeteS in CA]

US accuses supplier for Amazon, Apple, Dell, GM, Microsoft of human rights abuses

https://www.cnet.com/news/us-accuses-supplier-for-amazon-apple-dell-gm-microsoft-of-human-rights-abuses/

The US Department of Commerce added 11 Chinese companies to its list of firms implicated in human rights violations, including China's reported campaign against Muslim minority groups from an area of the country known as the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. At least one of those companies, Nanchang O-Film Tech, is listed as a supplier or undefined "partner" with nearly two dozen tech and car companies, including Amazon, Apple, Dell, GM and Microsoft.

The Commerce Department said the group of 11 companies that supported "mass arbitrary detention, forced labor, involuntary collection of biometric data and genetic analysis" targeted at Uighurs and other minority groups will face restrictions on US products, including technology.
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The government's move against O-Film, which says it makes cameras, touchscreens and fingerprint sensors, marks an escalation of the Trump administration's use of tech companies as part of its pressure campaign against the Chinese government. Last year during the holiday shopping season, President Donald Trump Trump threatened to raise tariffs on smartphones and other electronics assembled in China, only calling off the move shortly before the tariffs were implemented.