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NOYB Files Complaints Against Scale AI Over Worker Monitoring

By Drooid · Oct 29, 2026 · How we work

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Privacy group NOYB filed five complaints in France, Italy, Netherlands and Austria against Scale AI, alleging worker monitoring.
Outlier platform records keystrokes, mouse movements and up to 19 trackers per worker.
Workers must submit ID documents and facial videos to Persona, which leaked 70,000 ID photos in October 2025.
Scale AI says its practices are disclosed, opt-in, and it does not sell workers’ data, calling the complaints unfounded.

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The March 2018 Cambridge Analytica expose revealed Facebook data harvested from up to 87 million users, prompting a £500,000 UK fine and a $5 billion US FTC penalty and spurring enforcement of the 2016 EU GDPR, which can levy fines up to €20 million. NOYB’s complaints against Scale AI invoke the same privacy rules across Europe.

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The March 2018 Cambridge Analytica expose revealed Facebook data harvested from up to 87 million users, prompting a £500,000 UK fine and a $5 billion US FTC penalty and spurring enforcement of the 2016 EU GDPR, which can levy fines up to €20 million. NOYB’s complaints against Scale AI invoke the same privacy rules across Europe.

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