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The Government Has Reversed Its Policy on Silicon Valley Diversity Data

posted by mrpg on Monday November 26 2018, @08:40PM   Printer-friendly
from the hire-me-I'm-smart dept.

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Federal labor officials have decided to reverse their longtime policy and release diversity numbers for government contractors such as Oracle and Palantir Technologies in response to a lawsuit filed by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting.

Reveal submitted Freedom of Information Act requests for the workplace statistics of those and other tech companies as part of a project analyzing the lack of diversity in Silicon Valley. We requested the companies’ official EEO-1 reports, which show the race and gender numbers for total US employees grouped by broad job categories.

But five companies – Oracle, Palantir, Pandora Media, Gilead Sciences and Splunk – objected to the requests, claiming that the diversity data is a trade secret. In each case, the US Department of Labor initially agreed with the companies and denied Reveal’s FOIA requests.

[...] On Oct. 30, the Labor Department notified the five government contractors that it would disclose their diversity numbers over their objections. Citing the lawsuit, the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs told the companies that it has “undertaken a supplemental review” and “will initiate disclosure.” The companies had until Nov. 19 to take legal action to stop the release of the data.

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Thexalon on Tuesday November 27 2018, @03:18AM (1 child)

    by Thexalon (636) on Tuesday November 27 2018, @03:18AM (#766786)

    The real solution to the problem of racial disparity has to begin before a child is even born. Poverty, education, safe environment, proper medical care, all of this has to be addressed.

    Bingo!

    Even issues that are sometimes described as relating to character are actually the result of racism. Want to know why there was a rise in black Americans with poor impulse control from 1970 to 1990? Look no further than the fact that black people, due to rampant housing discrimination, were and in some cases still are forced to live and work in areas with high lead toxicity, and one of the major effects of lead poisoning is loss of higher brain function. An effort began to start cleaning up the lead, and black Americans steadily became more responsible. It's almost like poisoning people is bad [motherjones.com] or something.

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  • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday November 27 2018, @05:13AM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday November 27 2018, @05:13AM (#766820) Journal

    And yet, we still have people on this very site (Looking at you, VLM, you piece of shit...) who will look right at the data and go "nope, nignogs gonna nig" or even worse. Makes me wonder if a little bit of high-velocity lead poisoning wouldn't be the most merciful option...

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