{"id":147704,"date":"2026-04-01T10:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/01\/sephora-files-flurry-of-lawsuits-over-claims-of-race-and-age-bias-by-cosmetic-selection-tool\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:28:15","slug":"sephora-files-flurry-of-lawsuits-over-claims-of-race-and-age-bias-by-cosmetic-selection-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/04\/01\/sephora-files-flurry-of-lawsuits-over-claims-of-race-and-age-bias-by-cosmetic-selection-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Sephora Files Flurry of Lawsuits Over Claims of Race and Age Bias by Cosmetic Selection Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sephora filed more than a dozen California lawsuits seeking to head off a wave of consumer arbitration demands claiming its opt-in \u201cChosen For You and \u201cYour Picks recommendations, built using customers’ self-reported \u201cage range and \u201cskin color, violate the Unruh Civil Rights Act. The company argues the tools do not limit access, pricing or terms of sale and therefore do not deny \u201cfull and equal accommodations.<\/p>\n

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Sephora filed more than a dozen California lawsuits seeking to head off a wave of consumer arbitration demands claiming its opt-in \u201cChosen For You and \u201cYour Picks recommendations, built using customers’ self-reported \u201cage range and \u201cskin color, violate the Unruh Civil Rights Act. The company argues the tools do not limit access, pricing or terms of sale and therefore do not deny \u201cfull and equal accommodations.<\/p>\n

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Sephora filed more than a dozen California lawsuits seeking to head off a wave of consumer arbitration demands claiming its opt-in \u201cChosen For You and \u201cYour Picks recommendations, built using customers’ self-reported \u201cage range and \u201cskin color, violate the Unruh Civil Rights Act. The company argues the tools do not limit access, pricing or terms […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":147705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/legal-news-skwxfv.jpg?fit=767%2C633&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}