Scale AI Accused of Replaying Workers' Keystrokes as Video
Imagine finishing a shift and discovering that your working day could be played back like a film — every keystroke, every drift of the mouse, every pause, stitched together into a video you never agreed to star in. That is, in essence, what European privacy campaigners say Scale AI has been doing to the freelance workers who train its customers' AI models. And on Tuesday 27 October 2026, they took the claim to four countries' regulators at once. The group behind the complaints is noyb, the European Centre for Digital Rights, best known for a decade of GDPR cases against US tech giants. This time its target is not a social network or a search engine. It is the hidden workforce underneath the AI boom: the people who write prompts, rank answers and correct chatbot output so that the finished models sound clever. Scale AI, the San Francisco company behind the Outlier platform, says none of it is true. The regulators in France, Italy, the Netherlands and Austria now get to decide ...