EU privacy advocates accuse US data annotation firm of snooping on contractors

Privacy group noyb filed five GDPR complaints against Scale AI across four European countries. The group accuses the firm of unlawfully tracking remote contractors who label data to train models. This action increases regulatory risk for international employers using surveillance software on gig workers.

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