Former employee sues KODAK
Maya Raber, a director of engineering since 2002 at Kodak's was dismissed when she voiced her objections against a cost saving project that may damage the file through compressions when uploading a file to their website.
She was in charge of developing software for Kodak's popular Easy Share Gallery in Emeryville, however the company came up with a plan to save money that she believes was deceptive to the Kodak users. This process was made through a compression algorithm, used when uploading a photo onto the Kodak site for storage.
Her concerns were that in order to save money, the company planned to implement a cost-saving project where consumer photos will be compressed irreversibly by an average of 50 percent. When you want to use the photo in prints, or when you want to crop a small part of the photo, the results can look grainy.
Maya Raber says when she voiced her concerns to Kodak managers she was fired. Raber acknowledges Kodak has yet to implement much of its plan, but claims the company did begin compressing photos from users who chose the faster easy upload option on the Web site.
A New York-based spokesperson for Kodak issued this statement: "We can assure you that Ms. Raber's accusations are completely false. We have not compressed images that are stored in the gallery without our customer's knowledge. We feel that Kodak has acted in a manner that is consistent with our corporate policies and ethics, and we will vigorously defend ourselves against all claims to the contrary."
Raber filed a wrongful termination lawsuit in Alameda County.
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She was in charge of developing software for Kodak's popular Easy Share Gallery in Emeryville, however the company came up with a plan to save money that she believes was deceptive to the Kodak users. This process was made through a compression algorithm, used when uploading a photo onto the Kodak site for storage.
Her concerns were that in order to save money, the company planned to implement a cost-saving project where consumer photos will be compressed irreversibly by an average of 50 percent. When you want to use the photo in prints, or when you want to crop a small part of the photo, the results can look grainy.
Maya Raber says when she voiced her concerns to Kodak managers she was fired. Raber acknowledges Kodak has yet to implement much of its plan, but claims the company did begin compressing photos from users who chose the faster easy upload option on the Web site.
A New York-based spokesperson for Kodak issued this statement: "We can assure you that Ms. Raber's accusations are completely false. We have not compressed images that are stored in the gallery without our customer's knowledge. We feel that Kodak has acted in a manner that is consistent with our corporate policies and ethics, and we will vigorously defend ourselves against all claims to the contrary."
Raber filed a wrongful termination lawsuit in Alameda County.
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