The lawsuit was filed in Washington, D.C. by nongovernmental organization International Right Advocates. It alleged that two mining companies, British company Glencore and Chinese company Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt, supplied cobalt to the companies.
The tech giants who purchased the cobalt were “aiding and abetting the cruel and brutal use of young children” in the Democratic Republic of the Congo mines.
It’s terrible how these big corporations continually do things like this and experience no meaningful consequences
The three-judge panel ruled Tuesday that the plaintiffs have standing to pursue their damages claims but the companies that purchased an “unspecified amount of cobalt through the global supply chain is not ‘participation in a venture’” under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008.
So RFID a block of cobalt, find it in big tech’s house and whammo. Got it.
