noyb Files Five GDPR Complaints Against Scale AI Over Outlier Monitoring

Privacy group noyb has filed five GDPR complaints against Scale AI, alleging that its Outlier platform tracks European freelance workers and repeatedly collects biometric data. The complaints, submitted in France, Italy, the Netherlands and Austria, concern workers who help produce AI training data; Scale AI disputes the allegations. noyb said the cases concern Outlier, which it says has more than 900,000 freelance workers, including people who write prompts and rank AI-generated answers. The group names Meta, OpenAI and Google among Scale AI’s customers. Meta owns 49% of Scale AI, according to Reuters.