175621913
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chiguy writes:
In October, a jury in a federal class-action lawsuit returned a verdict that found Cognizant intentionally discriminated against more than 2,000 non-Indian employees between 2013 and 2022. The verdict, which echoed a previously undisclosed finding from a 2020 US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation, centered on discrimination claims based on race and national origin. Cognizant, based in Teaneck, New Jersey, was found to have preferred workers from India, most of whom joined the firm’s US workforce of about 32,000 using skilled-worker visas called H-1Bs.
https://archive.ph/PiMNU
151880153
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chiguy writes:
Firefox keeps losing users, according to this rant, because it arrogantly refuses to listen to its users. 50 million users in the last 2 years and 500 million in the last 12 years.
42921173
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chiguy writes:
From NBC News:
"The Equifax credit reporting agency, with the aid of thousands of human resource departments around the country, has assembled...[a database]...containing 190 million employment and salary records covering more than one-third of U.S. adults...[Equifax] says [it] is adding 12 million records annually."
This salary information is for sale: "Its database is so detailed that it contains week-by-week paystub information dating back years for many individuals, as well as ... health care provider, whether someone has dental insurance and if they’ve ever filed an unemployment claim."
11049234
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chiguy writes:
New Jersey Supreme Court rules companies cannot read personal emails accessed through a company computer:
"Under all of the circumstances, we find that Stengart could reasonably expect that e-mails she exchanged with her attorney on her personal, password-protected, web-based e-mail account, accessed on a company laptop, would remain private," Chief Justice Stuart Rabner wrote in the decision, which upholds an appeals court's ruling last year.
"Stengart plainly took steps to protect the privacy of those e-mails and shield them from her employer," Rabner continued. "She used a personal, password protected e-mail account instead of her company e-mail address and did not save the account'(TM)s password on her computer."
3182027
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chiguy writes:
Another break-in, but the surprising bits are the unencrypted passwords stored in db despite previous hack, and the decision to not email users, presumably so that no one will make a fuss.
From PC World:
"Monster.com user IDs and passwords were stolen, along with names, e-mail addresses, birth dates, gender, ethnicity, and in some cases, users' states of residence. The information does not include Social Security numbers, which Monster.com said it doesn't collect, or resumes.
Monster.com posted the warning about the breach on Friday morning and does not plan to send e-mails to users about the issue..."
