{"id":4233,"date":"2022-01-04T06:38:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T05:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/04\/airbnb-blocks-oregon-hosts-from-seeing-guests-names-in-push-against-racial-bias\/"},"modified":"2022-01-04T06:38:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T05:38:47","slug":"airbnb-blocks-oregon-hosts-from-seeing-guests-names-in-push-against-racial-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/04\/airbnb-blocks-oregon-hosts-from-seeing-guests-names-in-push-against-racial-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbnb blocks Oregon hosts from seeing guests\u2019 names in push against racial bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move comes after lawsuit in which three Black women alleged discrimination tied to names and photos<\/p>\n<p>Airbnb rental hosts in the state of Oregon will no longer be able to see guests\u2019 names before approving their bookings, according to a new plan announced by the company.<\/p>\n<p>The policy update is specific to Oregon, for now, and was born out of a lawsuit in which three Black women from the Portland, Oregon, area alleged the rental site\u2019s use of names and photographs allowed for racial discrimination, violating the state\u2019s public accommodation laws.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jan\/03\/airbnb-race-oregon-names-discrimination\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7a004e0553e40259396676f6a93939909440ecb4\/0_232_3500_2101\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1cfdd0feebdf54cd77289a7bc0f6c649\" title=\"Airbnb blocks Oregon hosts from seeing guests\u2019 names in push against racial bias\" \/>Move comes after lawsuit in which three Black women alleged discrimination tied to names and photos<br \/>\nAirbnb rental hosts in the state of Oregon will no longer be able to see guests\u2019 names before approving their bookings, according to a new plan announced by the company.<br \/>\nThe policy update is specific to Oregon, for now, and was born out of a lawsuit in which three Black women from the Portland, Oregon, area alleged the rental site\u2019s use of names and photographs allowed for racial discrimination, violating the state\u2019s public accommodation laws. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move comes after lawsuit in which three Black women alleged discrimination tied to names and photos Airbnb rental hosts in the state of Oregon will no longer be able to see guests\u2019 names before approving their bookings, according to a new plan announced by the company. The policy update is specific to Oregon, for now, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/04\/airbnb-blocks-oregon-hosts-from-seeing-guests-names-in-push-against-racial-bias\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Airbnb blocks Oregon hosts from seeing guests\u2019 names in push against racial bias<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}