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Comment by bpodgursky | Hacker News Reader

The differentiation between race and ethnicity will actually out a ton of black hispanics even in larger organizations.

I agree the race/ethnicity and other stipulations not directly related to price transparency are a waste of resources and potentially harmful for political discourse. Just letting the prices be public would have solved the other “problems” without enabling useless dialogue about nebulous classifications.

Forgive my ignorance. What are the consequences of being outed as a black hispanic?

I assume it’s a demographic that is measured on the typical set of questions but with a small proportion of the total population, making it easier to deanonymize.

I think they mean that this rare combination won’t have the anonymity granted to larger groups.

Some stat sheet will say “black Hispanics make $X” and it’ll be obvious to everyone working there that it maps 1:1 with Dave

They really didn't put anything in the bill to make sure K>1??

> those with 100 or more employees or contractors will have to report median and mean hourly pay rates by job category and “each combination of race, ethnicity, and sex.”

is what's in the article

So it's possible that a particular combination results in a population small enough that it's easy to identify even in the greater pool of 100

ITT nobody actually read the bill, myself included

And this kind of thing already happens right now at my company. I can't do surveys at my company that want to collect demographic information because white woman 20s in engineering is enough to narrow down the responses to exactly two people. If I don't respond my voice won't be heard, if I do I risk retribution. Yayy...

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