Hacker News with Generative AI: Discrimination

Google to pay $28M to settle claims it favoured white and Asian employees (theguardian.com)
Google has agreed to pay $28m (£22m) to settle a class action lawsuit claiming that it favoured white and Asian employees by paying them more and putting them on higher career tracks than other workers.

Google, Lawsuits, Discrimination, Employment, Race

104 points by rouma7 15 days ago | 136 comments

Trump administration cancels $400M in grants for Columbia University (nbcnews.com)
The Trump administration on Friday announced that it would cancel approximately $400 million in federal grants to Columbia University "due to the school’s continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students."

Politics, Education, Discrimination

31 points by apical_dendrite 27 days ago | 9 comments

Asian teen rejected by 16 colleges hired by Google, files discrimination lawsuit (abc7news.com)
The father of a Palo Alto teen who garnered national attention for getting rejected by 16 colleges and hired by Google as a software engineer has filed a new lawsuit on Feb. 11 against the University of California and five UC campuses -- UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB and UC Davis -- as well as the U.S. Department of Education, for racial discrimination.

Education, Discrimination, Lawsuits, Technology, College Admissions

26 points by blackeyeblitzar 42 days ago | 23 comments

Behavioural Patterns Are the New Skin Colour (nthprocess.com)
In a system that can't see you, your behavioural patterns become the things that are used to discriminate against you.

Artificial Intelligence, Discrimination, Privacy, Social Justice

18 points by shaydevelops 43 days ago | 7 comments

Early Meta employee sues for sexual harassment, gender discrimination (techcrunch.com)
One of Meta’s earliest employees is suing the company for sexual harassment, sex discrimination, and retaliation, according to a lawsuit filed this week in the state of Washington.

Legal Issues, Sexual Harassment, Discrimination, Meta

8 points by 3apo 56 days ago | 0 comments

Class Action over Biased FAA Hiring Practices Is Cleared for Takeoff (mslegal.org)
Denver, CO – May 12, 2021 – Mountain States Legal Foundation today scored a major victory in its Brigida v. Buttigieg case (formerly Brigida v. Chao), a class action against the Federal Aviation Administration for race-based discrimination against certain applicants for Air Traffic Controller jobs in the Obama era.

Lawsuits, Discrimination

6 points by tomohawk 62 days ago | 0 comments

CEO/Founder of Imprint admits to discriminatory hiring practices (twitter.com)

Hiring Practices, Discrimination, Business

3 points by mojomark 69 days ago | 1 comments

Leaked Doc: New Rules Allow Slurs on Facebook, Meta Platforms (theintercept.com)
Meta is now granting its users new freedom to post a wide array of derogatory remarks about races, nationalities, ethnic groups, sexual orientations, and gender identities, training materials obtained by The Intercept reveal.

Social Media, Censorship, Discrimination

5 points by latexr 83 days ago | 0 comments

Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post "Mexican Immigrants Are Trash" (theintercept.com)
Meta is now granting its users new freedom to post a wide array of derogatory remarks about races, nationalities, ethnic groups, sexual orientations, and gender identities, training materials obtained by The Intercept reveal.

Social Media, Censorship, Free Speech, Discrimination, Ethics

27 points by jsheard 84 days ago | 5 comments

She didn't get an apartment because of an AI-generated score (theguardian.com)
Three hundred twenty-four. That was the score Mary Louis was given by an AI-powered tenant screening tool. The software, SafeRent, didn’t explain in its 11-page report how the score was calculated or how it weighed various factors. It didn’t say what the score actually signified. It just displayed Louis’s number and determined it was too low. In a box next to the result, the report read: “Score recommendation: DECLINE”.

Artificial Intelligence, Housing, Discrimination

10 points by impish9208 110 days ago | 0 comments

Jury Finds Discrimination in H-1B Visa Tech Worker Case (govtech.com)
A company that supplies thousands of workers for Silicon Valley’s technology industry and other Bay Area employers intentionally discriminated against non-Indian workers, a jury has found.

Immigration, Discrimination, Tech Industry, Lawsuits

7 points by DanielleMolloy 112 days ago | 0 comments

Jury finds Cognizant discriminated against US workers (bloomberg.com)
Six months into her job, Latreecia Folkes had launched a new project and received a letter of praise from her supervisor. And then, she says, she was told to train her replacement on the project, a worker from India. She balked at that but was replaced anyway.

Discrimination, Labor, Technology, Lawsuits

107 points by huy-nguyen 114 days ago | 65 comments

Insiders Tell How IT Giant Favored Indian H-1B Workers over US Employees (bloomberg.com)
Six months into her job, Latreecia Folkes had launched a new project and received a letter of praise from her supervisor. And then, she says, she was told to train her replacement on the project, a worker from India. She balked at that but was replaced anyway.

Immigration, Technology, Discrimination, Workplace, India

11 points by impish9208 116 days ago | 7 comments

I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind (2023) (michaels.world)
I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind

Accessibility, hCaptcha, Discrimination

410 points by blindgeek 137 days ago | 269 comments

TSMC Arizona sued for race and citizenship discrimination (tomshardware.com)

TSMC, Lawsuits, Discrimination, Arizona

10 points by aragonite 141 days ago | 0 comments

Ask HN: Has anyone been in this situation? (ycombinator.com)
Have you ever been promised ADA accommodations, then the company didn't provide them for a significant part of the year (5-6 months). Then they gave you a low year end rating based off of opinion despite higher than expected output for your level?

ADA Accommodations, Employment, Performance Reviews, Discrimination

15 points by giantg2 143 days ago | 11 comments

Machines of Loving Grace (clunyjournal.com)
Last year, at a Panera-catered “new faculty appreciation” luncheon, the Dean of my college told me—as I folded my hands across my seven-months-pregnant belly—that I should look for long-term academic employment elsewhere.

Academia, Gender Bias, Discrimination

233 points by greenie_beans 150 days ago | 59 comments

Ask HN: How is job search going for you? (ycombinator.com)
I left my job in 2023 voluntarily after immense harassment by management for taking paternity leave. I needed it since our baby birth and first few months did not go as we expected. Company had 6 months of parental leave policy but my manager (a woman!) still discriminated. Our baby is fine now and growing well.<p>I took 6 months off and then started working on my own project that turned into a startup.

Job Searching, Startups, Discrimination

27 points by logicalxor 162 days ago | 21 comments

Muslims in India face discrimination after restaurants display workers' names (theguardian.com)
Muslims in India say they have been fired from their jobs and face the closure of their businesses after two states brought in a “discriminatory” policy making it mandatory for restaurants to publicly display the names of all their employees.

India, Discrimination, Religion, Muslims, Business

5 points by Tomte 172 days ago | 0 comments

Cognizant found guilty of discriminating against non-Indian employees (siliconvalley.com)

Cognizant, Discrimination, Lawsuits, Employment, India

443 points by Melchizedek 177 days ago | 415 comments

Cognizant Discriminated Against Non-Indian Workers, US Jury Says (bloomberg.com)
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. engaged in a pattern of discriminatory conduct toward non-Indian workers and should pay punitive damages to compensate employees who suffered harm, a US jury found.

Discrimination, Lawsuits, Technology, Employment, India

49 points by jmsflknr 178 days ago | 15 comments

Dart: The Disability Attitude Re-Adjustment Tool (2015) (kingqueen.org.uk)
I’ve written a Guide for Disabled People to Sue Service Providers for Disability Discrimination, as Unrepresented Litigants in Person in England. (Otherwise known as DART – the Disability Attitude Readjustment Tool.) Suing isn’t as difficult or risky as it might sound. Given that only the person discriminated against can take action, and legal aid is effectively non-existent, this is now pretty much the only way to enforce one’s legal rights.

Disability Rights, Law, UK, Accessibility, Discrimination

3 points by fanf2 204 days ago | 0 comments

Algorithmic Wage Discrimination (2023) (columbialawreview.org)
Recent technological developments related to the extraction and processing of data have given rise to concerns about a reduction of privacy in the workplace. For many low-income and subordinated racial minority workforces in the United States, however, on-the-job data collection and algorithmic decisionmaking systems are having a more profound yet overlooked impact: These technologies are fundamentally altering the experience of labor and undermining economic stability and job mobility.

Labor, Discrimination, Data Privacy, Artificial Intelligence

149 points by tacon 204 days ago | 101 comments

Tokyo medical school admits changing results to exclude women (2018) (theguardian.com)

Education, Japan, Discrimination, Gender Bias

14 points by hammock 210 days ago | 0 comments

X ordered to pay €550k to Irish employee fired after yes-or-resign ultimatum (fortune.com)

Employment Law, Ireland, Discrimination, Business

488 points by pzmarzly 230 days ago | 440 comments

Steve Teixeira sues Mozilla, alleging discrimination after cancer diagnosis (geekwire.com)

Lawsuit, Discrimination, Mozilla, Cancer, Technology

24 points by TiredOfLife 263 days ago | 9 comments

Mozilla sued for discrimination by former CEO-to-be (locals.com)

Mozilla, Lawsuits, Discrimination, CEO

35 points by Georgelemental 289 days ago | 3 comments

Palestinian-American engineer accuses Meta of firing him over Gaza content (theguardian.com)

Discrimination, Politics, Middle East

11 points by throw310822 301 days ago | 6 comments

Meta's Ad Algorithm Directs Black Users to For-Profit Colleges (peopleofcolorintech.com)