PrivacyMedium
Xsolla Employees Fired by CEO Allegedly via Big Data Analytics of Work Activities
- Occurred
- Aug 3, 2021
- Published
- Aug 6, 2021
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Xsolla CEO fired more than a hundred employees from his company in Perm, Russia, based on big data analysis of their remote digitized-work activity, which critics said was violating employee's privacy, outdated, and extremely ineffective.
Developers
- Unknown
Deployers
- Xsolla
Harmed parties
- Xsolla employees
- Privacy
- Biometric data subjects
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Mass firing based on employee activity monitoring raises privacy concerns and labor rights issues.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8