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Re: Show HN: Sebenz.ai – Convert your time and human intelligence into money

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"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…

Added some proper legal now :)

Re: Show HN: Sebenz.ai – Convert your time and human intelligence into money

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post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Added some proper legal now :)

Re: Show HN: Sebenz.ai – Convert your time and human intelligence into money

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post #39
post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fixed, thanks! Still working on legal stuff. Working on more bugs now. This wasn't like an official launch still very much work in progress.

Added some proper legal now :)

You should spent a lot more thought and effort on privacy and legal terms than "adding it now" after being challenged on it.

Re: Show HN: Sebenz.ai – Convert your time and human intelligence into money

#45
post #34

Signup page: > Terms and conditions apply. You agree that we may use your data for marketing purposes and share it with any of our affiliates or partners. Do you agree to waive all legal consequences and rights to legal recourse relating to this survey? Neither Hacker News nor Reddit have the appropriate typeface options for the requisite magnitude of NOPE this deserves to be responded to with. Nothing about completi…

fixed

No it isn't.

https://sebenzai.typeform.com/to/MQ6QUy

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