{"id":988286,"date":"2026-01-28T12:16:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988286"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:16:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:46:56","slug":"company-whose-ai-hiring-tool-is-used-by-microsoft-and-paypal-sued-compiling-secretive-reports-termed-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/28\/company-whose-ai-hiring-tool-is-used-by-microsoft-and-paypal-sued-compiling-secretive-reports-termed-illegal\/","title":{"rendered":"Company whose AI hiring tool is used by Microsoft and Paypal sued compiling secretive reports termed &#8216;illegal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Job seekers have filed a lawsuit against Eightfold, an artificial intelligence (AI) hiring tool used by companies including Microsoft and PayPal, accusing it of creating secretive reports that influence hiring decisions without giving candidates access to that information. According to a fortune report, the case argues that Eightfold\u2019s practices may violate US consumer protection laws by denying applicants the right to see, review, or correct data used to assess them. If the court accepts this argument, the case could have wider implications for how AI-based hiring systems operate and how transparent they must be with job seekers.<\/p>\n<p>Lawsuit alleges violation of hiring transparency laws<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Job seekers have filed a lawsuit against Eightfold, an artificial intelligence (AI) hiring tool used by companies including Microsoft and PayPal, accusing it of creating secretive reports that influence hiring decisions without giving candidates access to that information. According to a fortune report, the case argues that Eightfold\u2019s practices may violate US consumer protection laws by denying applicants the right to see, review, or correct data used to assess them. If the court accepts this argument, the case could have wider implications for how AI-based hiring systems operate and how transparent they must be with job seekers. Lawsuit alleges violation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}