“Hello, we’re <insert multi billion mega corporation here>. Laws and rules do not apply to us. Go ahead. Give us a fine. Sue us. Whatever amount you request is mere crumbs to us.”
This is why we need a corporate death penalty.
Fines should be a percentage of annual revenue, not a fixed dollar amount. That way it will hurt a large company just as much as it would a small one.
The GDPR fines are. Other laws should be similar.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The allegation emerges from a complaint [PDF] accusing the tech and retail mega-corp of demoting, and then dismissing, a former high-flying AI scientist after it discovered she was pregnant.
Part of her role was flagging violations of Amazon’s internal copyright policies and escalating these concerns to the in-house legal team.
In March 2023, the filing claims, her team director, Andrey Styskin, challenged Ghaderi to understand why Amazon was not meeting its goals on Alexa search quality.
A German-born doctor of electrical engineering, Ghaderi also made a series of allegations relating to her treatment by Amazon following the disclosure of her pregnancy.
Marcu admitted to Ghaderi that he was changing her reporting structure ‘temporar[ily]’ so he would not have to ‘worry’ about managing her team during her leave," the court documents allege.
The filing continues that she subsequently requested to be moved to another team, but, allegedly, her line manager said because she was on the Focus plan she was ineligible for a transfer.
The original article contains 1,397 words, the summary contains 163 words. Saved 88%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
"Amazon specifically told me to ignore IP laws. That’s wild, right?
On an unrelated note, did you know that there’s now a torrent with infohash
5e007531c6e7c8d23a957f828c0632b4c57b5078that compiles all of Kindle books and Prime videos? Crazy stuff!"Which tracker?
It’s fictional :(
I don’t care all that much that she was asked to. I care that she did.
Highly doubt anybody ever “asked”
She did it and she knew not to say stupid shit to legal so they don’t flag it.
It doesn’t sound like she did if you read the article. She was assigned to point out when their shit broke their own copyright policies; she did so, even pointing out that she was given contradictory goals between upper management and legal, was then transferred to a different tasks a few times, one of which being to rework the entire AmazonBot network storage system to reduce its size by 75% in 8 days (a task engineers told her was impossible even if she understood the system), basically setting her up to fail, before being canned.
