The Delhi High Court has vacated its interim orders of April 2017 restraining publication of certain impugned allegations of sexual harassment made against Mahesh Murthy, a Mumbai-based venture capitalist, by several women. A single-judge bench presided by Justice Jayanth Nath passed the order on Monday. https://factordaily.com/delhi-high-court-sets-aside-interim-...
For example, one Indian supplier Apple approached in 2018 was Superpacks, which operated a packaging factory in Bangalore. Apple sent auditors to assess whether its supplier responsibility practices were up to Apple's standards. The audits revealed dozens of violations. The site had no safety measures for storing chemicals, lacked monitoring for noise and wastewater, and didn't have several environmental and construction permits. It didn't properly test drinking water for workers and the site lacked a fire hydrant system, according to a person close to Apple.
Apple spent months pushing Superpacks to fix the violations. However, the Indian company stopped giving updates and missed deadlines for fixes. Apple ultimately didn't give it a business contract. Superpacks didn't respond to a request for comment.
A lot of the times you end up using client end tools which does not require sharing data with these companies. You log into the clients system and do annotation or labelling on it without downloading the data.
This is the new back-office for AI processes and looks like India is tapping into it just at the right time just like the BPO boom in the early 2000's.
Unsurprisingly since they have had a strong tech workforce with cheap labor cost and an advantage in language (English). It will be interesting to see them move up the value chain and the disruption it may create.
This is the investigation referred in the story.