Data rights group takes aim at AI platform Scale
Source: The Star
Published on: 2026-10-27 09:03
VIENNA: A prominent data protection group on Oct 27 said it was filing five legal complaints in Europe against San Francisco-based startup Scale AI over the way its training platform Outlier handles data. The European Centre for Digital Rights, known as Noyb, is filing two complaints in Austria, one in France, one in the Netherlands and another in Italy, it said in a statement. Outlier recruits freelancers and subject-matter experts to help train, evaluate and improve artificial intelligence models. According to Noyb, it uses more than 900,000 freelancers to evaluate and correct the responses of AI systems, with customers including Meta, OpenAI, Google and the US government. Outlier "collects huge amounts of personal data and forces workers to go through an invasive biometric verification to earn money", the NGO said. "In Europe, this far-reaching workplace surveillance clearly viol...
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