{
  "id": 1873,
  "url": "https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/ai-company-eightfold-sued-helping-companies-secretly-score-job-seekers-2026-01-21",
  "title": "AI company Eightfold sued for helping companies secretly score job seekers",
  "summary": "Jan 21 (Reuters) - Eightfold AI, a venture capital-backed artificial intelligence hiring platform used by Microsoft, PayPal and many other Fortune 500 companies, is being sued in California for allegedly compiling reports used to screen job ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1575#7495)",
  "authors": null,
  "category": "incident",
  "topics": "jobs-economy,finance-investment",
  "orgs": "microsoft",
  "regions": "us",
  "published_at": "2026-07-08T00:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:04:12.223Z",
  "source_slug": "aiid",
  "source_name": "AI Incident Database",
  "source_homepage": "https://incidentdatabase.ai",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1873",
  "original_url": "https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/ai-company-eightfold-sued-helping-companies-secretly-score-job-seekers-2026-01-21",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}