Remember in 2021 where people decided it was perfectly fine to fire people over not divulging medical information, or not taking a procedure? Yeah, predictably it turns out that can be a huge problem.
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@gabriel if this is true ... what the ever living fuck
I guess ending the pre-existing conditions insurance loophole brought us here, but we should have expected companies would figure out how to weaponize information for sneaky/underhanded wrongful termination so they could avoid their healthcare group costs from going up
I guess ending the pre-existing conditions insurance loophole brought us here, but we should have expected companies would figure out how to weaponize information for sneaky/underhanded wrongful termination so they could avoid their healthcare group costs from going up
@gabriel also WHY did Meta even have access to their own employee's health records?
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7@feld I'm assuming they didn't have direct access but rather detected correlations (something AI is notably good for).
From an article:
The lawsuit filed late Monday in federal court in Oakland, Calif., claims the company used internal AI systems, keystroke and activity-monitoring data, AI token-usage dashboards and algorithmically assisted performance rankings, among other methods, to determine who would be laid off.
Meta, according to the lawsuit, did not account for protected leave when taking employees' scores into account and "did not pause the system for the individualized, leave- and accommodation-neutral review that the law requires."
As a result, people on protected medical or family leave were disproportionately selected for layoffs, the lawsuit says. Each of the 26 anonymous employees in the lawsuit took protected leave, or requested or received a reasonable accommodation for disability.
But my original point is people have no idea how much worse this can get.
@kuteboicoder @gabriel hey man people are perfectly capable of doing evil things without the state of Israel being involved. They don't get to monopolize crimes against humanity!
@subnetter @gabriel if they hack the healthcare records it's fair use right?
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I would not at all be shocked to see lobbying for getting "anonymized" medical info into the whole data broker industrial complex.
So much so I would be astounded if this didn't already happen in some way or another...
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@subnetter @feld @gabriel 
mfw all those times i asked why people want their employers to be their dad
shit like this is among the reasons thats a bad idea
mfw all those times i asked why people want their employers to be their dadshit like this is among the reasons thats a bad idea