[Air-L] Microsoft sued by its own Commercial Content Moderators
Sarah T. Roberts
sarah.roberts at ucla.edu
Wed Jan 11 17:20:57 PST 2017
Of potential interest to many on this list, I suspect -
An attorney in Washington state filed suit on behalf of two CCM workers who, he alleges, now suffer PTSD due to exposure to horrific content as an integral part of their employment at Microsoft. It is, to my knowledge, a first of its kind case - but likely not the last.
https://illusionofvolition.com/2017/01/11/microsoft-sued-by-commercial-content-moderators-ccm-in-first-of-its-kind-case/
—Sarah
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S a r a h T. R o b e r t s, P h. D.
Assistant Professor
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Information Studies
Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
https://is.gseis.ucla.edu/
Blogging periodically at
http://illusionofvolition.com
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