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

Privacy advocacy group noyb filed five GDPR complaints across four EU countries against Scale AI, alleging extensive unlawful monitoring of European contractors on the Outlier AI platform. Contractors perform data annotation, AI evaluation and labeling tasks for clients including OpenAI, Google, xAI, and the US government. Scale uses identity verification and activity tracking tools that privacy advocates argue violate GDPR workplace protections. The complaints focus on surveillance practices deemed excessive compared to standards for other forms of employment in the EU.

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