Where technology meets responsibility
Driving down the road your phone buzzes alerting you that you have received a text message. You reach into your pocket to pull out your phone, it doesn’t budge. The phone buzzes again leaving you anxious to see who or what is wanting you. Reaching deeper into your pocket you glance down to see why it won’t come out, suddenly the car in front of you slams on its brakes. One second too late the brakes on your car screech down the road, not having enough friction between you and the pavement to slow you down in time. Two cars collide with such force that the car in front ejects two passengers into the street killing them instantly.
Was this the carriers fault? Did the cell phone cause the accident?
We have no quarrel with Isa Saharkhiz and his son; indeed Nokia Siemens Networks condemns human rights violations around the world. But the Saharkhiz lawsuit is brought in the wrong place, against the wrong party, and on the wrong premise.
It’s an open and shut case really. I’ll repeat what I said in my previous article, that as much as I sympathize with Mehdi and the hell his father is going through right now, it feels like the lawsuit they brought against NSN was nothing more than a media stunt to garner attention towards their terrible situation.
