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This reminds me of communist-era practice of spying on your neighbors for "the good of your country." And, just like this app, the spies received small payments for the quality and frequency of their information. The more things change, the more they stay the same...
"Walk around your neighbourhood and take photographs. We'll pay you per photograph. Collect vehicle license plate data..." Yeah, how about fucking off? What the shit is this about? People should mind their own business. It is like those apps that ask you to collect WiFi SSIDs while driving around to 'help creating better location services' aka violate people's privacy for profit by some company.
An individual might accidentally capture a license plate on a picture they take, or if you use pictures for traffic monitoring and they capture license plates but you don't store the data, those might be legitimate purposes. "Go around and spy on your neighbours for some foreign company" cannot be legal.
See also the privacy policy that was lorem ipsum when this was posted. When someone commented, the owner seems to have quickly downloaded a template somewhere that says vague things like "we use it for legitimate business interests".
A variant on Mechanical Turk? MT has been doing image classification for a long time.
yes but we encrypt the data. companies that use mechanical turk share your sensitive data with people working in third-world clickfarms. we "digitally shred" your audio and image data before we get it annotated. Basically we just productizing CAPTCHA and making it work on smartphones and Ethereum
Encryption is reversible, the question is who has access to the keys and what data does it unlock.
Also, it seems odd that this is never mentioned in your privacy policy (ctrl+f "crypt" to match decryption/encryption/cryptography, but no hits). You'd think if this is a core feature to maintain security and/or privacy and distinguish yourself from the competition, it would be in there...
"Walk around your neighbourhood and take photographs. We'll pay you per photograph. Collect vehicle license plate data..." Yeah, how about fucking off? What the shit is this about? People should mind their own business. It is like those apps that ask you to collect WiFi SSIDs while driving around to 'help creating better location services' aka violate people's privacy for profit by some company.
No way that that's legal in the European Union. An individual might accidentally capture a license plate on a picture they take, or if you use pictures for traffic monitoring and they capture license plates but you don't store the data, those might be legitimate purposes. "Go around and spy on your neighbours for some foreign company" cannot be legal. See also the privacy policy that was lorem ipsum when this was pos…
They even forgot to change the links, so all sebenz.ai links still go to the scale site...
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No way that that's legal in the European Union. An individual might accidentally capture a license plate on a picture they take, or if you use pictures for traffic monitoring and they capture license plates but you don't store the data, those might be legitimate purposes. "Go around and spy on your neighbours for some foreign company" cannot be legal. See also the privacy policy that was lorem ipsum when this was pos…
It gets worse. They just updated the Terms, however, they copied them directly from this site here: https://scale.com/legal/terms They even forgot to change the links, so all sebenz.ai links still go to the scale site...
I'd be extremely concerned about downloading an app to my mobile device from a data collection venture.
Clicking the "Download" link on your "Terms" page takes me to the following page [1] and clicking the "Get in touch" link takes me to a dead page [2]. Also, your title is still set as "Quicksmart - Webflow HTML Website Template" which appears on the tab for your page. I would suggest going over your site once more and clear up some of these low hanging fruit, as it really doesn't give me a lot of confidence that I'll…
please be patient ':)
"Walk around your neighbourhood and take photographs. We'll pay you per photograph. Collect vehicle license plate data..." Yeah, how about fucking off? What the shit is this about? People should mind their own business. It is like those apps that ask you to collect WiFi SSIDs while driving around to 'help creating better location services' aka violate people's privacy for profit by some company.
"Walk around your neighbourhood and take photographs. We'll pay you per photograph. Collect vehicle license plate data..." Yeah, how about fucking off? What the shit is this about? People should mind their own business. It is like those apps that ask you to collect WiFi SSIDs while driving around to 'help creating better location services' aka violate people's privacy for profit by some company.
No way that that's legal in the European Union. An individual might accidentally capture a license plate on a picture they take, or if you use pictures for traffic monitoring and they capture license plates but you don't store the data, those might be legitimate purposes. "Go around and spy on your neighbours for some foreign company" cannot be legal. See also the privacy policy that was lorem ipsum when this was pos…
Different laws apply to different places.
We care about privacy.