{"id":73542,"date":"2016-10-11T15:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T19:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techvibes.com\/?p=73542"},"modified":"2016-10-11T17:22:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T21:22:01","slug":"email-scandal-discrimination-lawsuit-yahoo-battered-by-barrage-of-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/email-scandal-discrimination-lawsuit-yahoo-battered-by-barrage-of-bad-news","title":{"rendered":"Email Scandal, Discrimination Lawsuit: Yahoo Battered by Barrage of Bad News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo&#8217;s streak of bad news continues. Shortly after <a href=\"https:\/\/borndigital.com\/2016\/02\/01\/yahoo-trimming-workforce-by-15-report-reveals-2016-02-01\">being acquired by Verizon<\/a> for $5 billion, the company confirmed rumors of a massive security breach from 2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/borndigital.com\/2016\/09\/22\/yahoo-confirms-data-breach-at-least-500-million-users-affected\">affecting at least 500 million users<\/a>, believing it was a \u201cstate-sponsored actor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then it was revealed that Yahoo has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-yahoo-nsa-exclusive-idUSKCN1241YT\">secretly scanning emails<\/a> before they reach recipients\u2014and that data was being turned over to US intelligence, found Reuters. Oops.<\/p>\n<p>After that, Yahoo got caught making it unnecessarily difficult to actually leave their mail service, despite having lost users&#8217; trust. The company had the audacity <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/U\/US_TEC_YAHOO_BREACH?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULt\">to disable email forwarding<\/a> at the beginning of the month, making the switch to a new email service a struggle, according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>And now Yahoo is being sued\u2014well, specifically CEO Marissa Mayer, who allegedly led a purge of male employees to falsely accelerate workplace &#8220;equality&#8221;\u2014at the very obvious expense of an entire gender. The irony is real.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMayer encouraged and fostered the use of (an employee performance-rating system) to accommodate management\u2019s subjective biases and personal opinions, to the detriment of Yahoo\u2019s male employees,\u201d reads a lawsuit suit filed by Scott Ard in federal district court in San Jose. Ard was a prominent local media executive who felt among several unfairly dismissed by Mayer and co.<\/p>\n<p>A (female) spokeswoman defended Yahoo&#8217;s process, saying the performance reviews revolved around &#8220;fairness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ard&#8217;s lawsuit, meanwhile, argues that &#8220;the process allowed high-level managers to arbitrarily change scores of employees they had no contact with, and it \u201cpermitted and encouraged discrimination based on gender or any other personal bias held by management.&#8221; It notes that over an 18-month period, 87% of senior-level editorial employees hired were female.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo&#8217;s streak of bad news continues. Shortly after being acquired by Verizon for $5 billion, the company confirmed rumors of a massive security breach from 2014 affecting at least 500 million users, believing it was a \u201cstate-sponsored actor.&#8221; Then it was revealed that Yahoo has been secretly scanning emails before they reach recipients\u2014and that data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55555,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-73542","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","hentry","category-News"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/73542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/55555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/73542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73542"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=73542"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=73542"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=73542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}