Had to happen, didn’t it? Class action (meaning that anyone can apply to join the case against..) suit levelled at Eightfold AI for evaluating candidates employment suitability, without informing them or giving them the option of correcting the information. The implications for HR tech and HR tech users is significant - a lot of the tools we use today already have aggregators of public data for finding and sorting talent. How many of those have asked for consent, or provided opportunity to change or dispute the data? Quite likely none at all, whether in or
out of the recruitment space. Brainfooder
Martyn Redstone explains in more depth
here, whilst fellow brainfooder
Heather Bussing produces a
great opinion piece, delivered in human language, with typical style. Finally, brainfooder
Matt Charney, has his
inimical must read take.