The article outlines significant ethical issues in the global supply chain of mobile phones, such as audit fraud, inadequate living wages, and poor working conditions. Although Light Phone markets itself as a minimalist, design-focused brand, its participation in the mobile phone market exposes it to these systemic risks. Without clear and transparent measures to ensure ethical supply chain practices, Light Phone could be indirectly complicit in perpetuating these labor abuses, thereby contributing to broader patterns of corporate irresponsibility that support authoritarian structures.

The global supply chain of a mobile phone