Facebook Accused by Female Truckers of Skewing Job Ads December 2, 2022 By Paresh Dave Meta Platforms Inc. unlawfully steered dozens of hiring ads from trucking companies and other advertisers to mostly one gender or...
ID.me’s Claim on Scope of Unemployment Fraud Baseless, U.S. Congress Says November 18, 2022 By Paresh Dave Government contractor ID.me, which checks the identity of benefits applicants, had no basis for its claim that almost half of...
GM’s Cruise Wins First California Permit To Carry Paying Riders In Driverless Cars June 3, 2022 By Paresh Dave General Motors Co.’s GM.N Cruise on Thursday became the first company to secure a permit to charge for self-driving car...
U.S. Cities Are Backing Off Banning Facial Recognition as Crime Rises May 12, 2022 By Paresh Dave Facial recognition is making a comeback in the United States as bans to thwart the technology and curb racial bias...
Arizona Judge Rules Google Should Face Jury in State’s Location Privacy Lawsuit January 26, 2022 By Paresh Dave Allegations that Alphabet Inc.’s Google deceived users with unclear smartphone location tracking settings should be weighed by a jury, an...
Agency in California Opposes Cruise Robotaxi Application, Citing Safety December 3, 2021 By Paresh Dave and Hyunjoo Jin San Francisco’s public transit operator has challenged an application by Cruise to charge for robotaxi rides, saying on Wednesday promotional...
California Autonomous Delivery Service Rolling out from Nuro, 7-Eleven December 2, 2021 By Jane Lanhee Lee, Hyunjoo Jin and Paresh Dave Self-driving tech startup Nuro said on Wednesday it was rolling out California’s first commercial autonomous delivery service in partnership with...
GM, Alphabet Win California’s First Autonomous Permits for Passenger Rides September 30, 2021 By Hyunjoo Jin, Jane Lanhee Lee and Paresh Dave General Motors Co.’s Cruise and Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo self-driving car subsidiaries on Thursday became the first companies to receive autonomous...
INSIGHT: How Big Tech Ethics Panels Are Putting Brakes on AI September 8, 2021 By Paresh Dave and Jeffrey Dastin In September last year, Google’s cloud unit looked into using artificial intelligence to help a financial firm decide whom to...
‘Vaccine Passport’ Apps Gaining Traction in Airports, Live Events May 17, 2021 By Paresh Dave Over 60 U.S. stadiums and other venues are deploying an app from Clear to verify people’s COVID-19 status, placing the...