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This one is more about social ills and corporate greed than something directly impacting the customer's experience with the product. | This one is more about social ills and corporate greed than something directly impacting the customer's experience with the product. | ||
Corporations like to say that they must pay their execs the way they do to retain them, because "everyone else is doing it". Would they continue to do so if it impacted their bottom line? Would the court of public opinion impact their bottom line if consumers could easily find the numbers at the time of purchase?<blockquote>Our highest-paid executive makes {''number''} times as much per {''period''} as the lowest paid person in our facilities, including contractors but excluding unpaid interns, of which our workforce includes { ''percent'' | ''number'' }.</blockquote> | Corporations like to say that they must pay their execs the way they do to retain them, because "everyone else is doing it". Would they continue to do so if it impacted their bottom line? Would the court of public opinion impact their bottom line if consumers could easily find the numbers at the time of purchase? How forgiving will the court of public opinion be if gender-based wage inequality gaps are made public?<blockquote>Our highest-paid executive makes {''number''} times as much per {''period''} as the lowest paid person in our facilities, including contractors but excluding unpaid interns, of which our workforce includes { ''percent'' | ''number'' }. The largest gender inequality gap we have is {''percent''}, for {''role''}.</blockquote>Contractors (temp employees, lawn care, janitorial, etc) "in our facilities" are included so that a company can't improve this statistic by contracting for the low-wage work. | ||
TBD: what about companies which contract with a third party to do manufacturing or other work that is not "in our facilities"? E.g. A brand where most or all design and/or manufacturing is contracted out to companies in regions with weak pollution/safety/labor laws. | |||
==== Commitment to not remove features ==== | ====Reliance on online connectivity / corporate servers==== | ||
Will the product function if not connected to the internet? How much functionality is lost without a connection? Will the product continue to function if the company goes under or shuts down its servers? e.g for a "smart" lock, will I be locked out of my house if my router crashes? | |||
====Commitment to not remove features==== | |||
Does the manufacturer commit to not removing any features that are present (or advertised) at the time of purchase? (Exception: ''temporarily'' disabling a feature if a critical security vulnerability is found.) | Does the manufacturer commit to not removing any features that are present (or advertised) at the time of purchase? (Exception: ''temporarily'' disabling a feature if a critical security vulnerability is found.) | ||
Do they commit to never changing any of the features present (or advertised) at purchase to features that must be paid for? | Do they commit to never changing any of the features present (or advertised) at purchase to features that must be paid for? | ||
==== Commitment to provide security updates ==== | The "as advertised" wording is to close the loophole of advertising a feature as "coming soon" so they can retain more control over that feature. | ||
==== Commitment to product security ==== | |||
If the product includes network connectivity, does the company certify that reasonable effort has been put into ensuring that the product is free from security defects that would impact the customer? e.g. backdoors, default passwords common to all devices (as opposed to a randomized password on the underside of the device), other common vulnerabilities. | |||
====Commitment to provide security updates==== | |||
Does the manufacturer commit to providing pure security updates for the lifetime of the product? Through what date will such updates be provided? (In this context, a "pure security update" is one which _only_ fixes security issues and does not alter product functionality for better or worse.) | Does the manufacturer commit to providing pure security updates for the lifetime of the product? Through what date will such updates be provided? (In this context, a "pure security update" is one which _only_ fixes security issues and does not alter product functionality for better or worse.) | ||
==== Commitment to allow product maintenance in the event the manufacturer is unable ==== | ====Commitment to allow product maintenance in the event the manufacturer is unable==== | ||
If the the product line is shut down, or the manufacturer goes bankrupt or is otherwise incapacitated, do they commit to granting customers the right to documentation, source code, and other design documents necessary to | If the the product line is shut down, or the manufacturer goes bankrupt or is otherwise incapacitated, do they commit to granting customers the right to documentation, source code, and other design documents necessary to | ||
* repair and maintain the product | *repair and maintain the product | ||
* create and maintain any online infrastructure that the product depends on or is enhanced by | *create and maintain any online infrastructure that the product depends on or is enhanced by | ||
==== Commitment to responsibly retain and dispose of consumer data ==== | |||
Does the company commit that any consumer data that happens to be collected will remain protected in the event that the company goes bankrupt or is sold? Does the company commit that it will destroy the consumer data rather than allowing it to fall into the hands of an unscrupulous new owner? How much money will be set aside to ensure this destruction? For how long will the company retain consumer data after its collection? | |||