Just a quickie: if you a) have Google Earth installed and b) do a search for EPZ Google Earth or Export Processing Zone Google Earth, you can quickly get some links to, e.g. an EPZ in Dhaka, or an Intel factory in the Philippines.

Allegedly. They may not be - and they look like any other industrial estate from the air. But there's a lot of much smaller shack-like buildings around the edge.

Interesting to note that Google has reportedly agreed to blur some Indian sites deemed to be a security risk. This is not unreasonable, from the point of view of the Indian government. But it makes me think we need more surveillance - by the right people, of the right sort, and open to all. If more of these EPZs could be Google-earthed by a bunch of unions, along with related data, that would be wonderful.

Imagine buying shoes, then being able to go to a website and find out: 'this is where your shoes are made, this is what the labour conditions are, this is the company, these are the tax-breaks...'

Hmm. More on this some other time...