Marketplace Tech for Tuesday, September 23, 2014

First up, we're joined by Dan Viederman, the CEO of Verite, a nonprofit organization that looks at global labor issues, to talk about a recent report showing that one in three immigrant workers in the Malaysian electronics industry are working under conditions of forced labor. Plus, Forrest Wickman, who writes for Slate’s Brow Beat blog, stops by to talk about texting on TV.

First up, we’re joined by Dan Viederman, the CEO of Verite, a nonprofit organization that looks at global labor issues, to talk about a recent report showing that one in three immigrant workers in the Malaysian electronics industry are working under conditions of forced labor. Plus, Forrest Wickman, who writes for Slate’s Brow Beat blog, stops by to talk about texting on TV.

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