# AI training platform Outlier illegally surveils European platform workers

- Type: News
- Source: noyb - European Center for Digital Rights
- Date: 2026-10-27
- Original: https://noyb.eu/en/ai-training-platform-outlier-illegally-surveils-european-platform-workers
- Canonical: https://overview.legal/posts/604110
- Topics: Monitoring, Personal Data, Biometric Data

## Summary

Online & Mobile tracking Today, noyb (in collaboration with Intérêt à Agir, DIPLab and Reversing.Works) has filed 5 complaints against Scale AI in France, Italy, the Netherlands and Austria. The US-based company operates an AI training platform named Outlier, which employs more than 900,000 “freelance” workers. Among its customers: Meta, OpenAI, Google – and the US government. However, it's not just the workers' extensive knowledge and experience that Scale AI is farming: The company collects hu

## Full text

Online & Mobile tracking Today, noyb (in collaboration with Intérêt à Agir, DIPLab and Reversing.Works) has filed 5 complaints against Scale AI in France, Italy, the Netherlands and Austria. The US-based company operates an AI training platform named Outlier, which employs more than 900,000 “freelance” workers. Among its customers: Meta, OpenAI, Google – and the US government. However, it's not just the workers' extensive knowledge and experience that Scale AI is farming: The company collects huge amounts of personal data and forces workers to go through an invasive biometric verification to earn money. In Europe, this far-reaching workplace surveillance clearly violates the workers’ fundamental right to data protection. Complaint in FranceComplaint in ItalyComplaint in the NetherlandsComplaint in Austria #1; Complaint in Austria #2Report by DiPLab on workplace surveillance by AI training platformsWhat is platform work – and what does it have to do with AI? From courier services like U

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