Tracy Mumford

How?

It can feel like a black box.

And a group of job seekers is now pushing back on that.

They filed a lawsuit against one particular screening company, which pulls together data from sources like LinkedIn.

The software then evaluates people's skills and scores each applicant on a scale of one to five.

The suit claims that's basically like a credit score.

And so, like credit scores, people have a right to know what it is.

Congress put the Fair Credit Reporting Act in place back in 1970 to make sure people could ask for their scores and dispute them if there were any errors.

The job seekers want the same thing, especially if AI is getting something wrong.

One plaintiff told The Times, I think I deserve to know what's being collected about me and shared with employers.

Those are the headlines.

I'm Tracy Mumford.

We'll be back tomorrow with the latest and the Friday News Quiz.

From the New York Times, it's the headlines.

I'm Tracy Mumford.

Today's Wednesday, January 21st.

Here's what we're covering.

Ahead of President Trump's remarks, the Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney, addressed the rising global tensions in his own speech.

While Carney didn't mention Trump by name, he spoke not long after the president posted an AI image on social media showing American flags superimposed over Canada, part of Trump's ongoing jabs that the country should become the 51st U.S.

state.