Rite Aid has agreed to a five-year ban from using facial recognition technology after the Federal Trade Commission found that the chain falsely accused customers of crimes and unfairly targeted people of color.
We live in a society with nearly no accountability for corporations. It is so unusual that movies are made when it happens, (Erin Brockovich) and even then, those responsible for murder walk away unscathed. From what I can find no one at PGE was ever charged with a crime.
I was just notified that my private medical information was hacked for the 3rd time in 2 years, but the corporations who have allowed that to happen face zero repercussions. Any issues are mine to deal with.
Equifax’s settlement for losing their (unwilling) client’s data was laughable and the company responded to every contact with a sales pitch pushing additional products at additional cost. People are still dealing with the identity theft issues from Equifax’s breach.
Ford only had to provide $300-$500 vouchers for building Explorers that were prone to roll over and those vouchers could only be redeemed if used for the purchase of another Ford.
CVS’s computers were deliberate set up to force automatic refills. The option would turn itself on no matter often it was disabled, and even if it was off, staff were told to automatically refill prescriptions if a renewal was on file. I regularly received prescriptions I did not order and had to change pharmacies because there was no other way to get them to stop. It took a full decade for California to finally take action against the company. I imagine most other states still let CVS do as they please.
IMO There will be no significant corporate accountability in any of our lifetimes. We’d need to move to the E.U for that.
We live in a society with nearly no accountability for corporations. It is so unusual that movies are made when it happens, (Erin Brockovich) and even then, those responsible for murder walk away unscathed. From what I can find no one at PGE was ever charged with a crime.
I was just notified that my private medical information was hacked for the 3rd time in 2 years, but the corporations who have allowed that to happen face zero repercussions. Any issues are mine to deal with.
Equifax’s settlement for losing their (unwilling) client’s data was laughable and the company responded to every contact with a sales pitch pushing additional products at additional cost. People are still dealing with the identity theft issues from Equifax’s breach.
Ford only had to provide $300-$500 vouchers for building Explorers that were prone to roll over and those vouchers could only be redeemed if used for the purchase of another Ford.
CVS’s computers were deliberate set up to force automatic refills. The option would turn itself on no matter often it was disabled, and even if it was off, staff were told to automatically refill prescriptions if a renewal was on file. I regularly received prescriptions I did not order and had to change pharmacies because there was no other way to get them to stop. It took a full decade for California to finally take action against the company. I imagine most other states still let CVS do as they please.
IMO There will be no significant corporate accountability in any of our lifetimes. We’d need to move to the E.U for that.