Melanie Ronen is a partner at Stradley Ronon in Southern California, where she focuses her practice on employment law. Artificial intelligence has been used in hiring processes for several years, ...

NJ Division of Civil Right has issued guidance clarifying that state discrimination law prohibits algorithmic discrimination. The Guidance discusses how the design, training, and deployment phases ...

Aiming to curb so-called “algorithmic discrimination,” the White House is directing by regulators to address ways in which tech companies' automated systems potentially fuel bias. In an executive ...

The push against independent contractors (ICs)—typically in the name of rideshare drivers who are only a small part of the category—keeps returning like a bad flashback from one of the Terminator ...

Predictive artificial intelligence (AI) hiring systems (AHSs) are used by employers every day to screen and shortlist job candidates. But while AI hiring systems promise time and cost savings for ...

Automated decision-making systems are increasingly being used to make important decisions in key areas of people’s lives. It is clear that relying on voluntary efforts of companies building and ...

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A recent White House Executive Order (on “Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government”) alerts Americans to an emerging threat most probably ...

In December 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a settlement with Rite Aid for the company’s use of facial recognition technology (FRT) in connection with its surveillance technologies ...

Technology seems to be intertwined with data mining nowadays. Companies value our personal details. They want to know what we like, what we might want to buy, what we could be needing very soon, or ...

People are less morally outraged when gender discrimination occurs because of an algorithm rather than direct human involvement, according to new research. People are less morally outraged when gender ...

Cynthia Khoo is a senior associate at the Center on Privacy & Technologyat Georgetown Law and a Canadian technology and human rights lawyer. Daniel Jellins is a staff ...