Five GDPR complaints say Scale AI tracks its EU contractors

The privacy group noyb made five complaints in France, Italy, the Netherlands and Austria against Scale AI. Scale AI operates Outlier, a platform where contractors do data tasks and rate AI answers to make models better. Noyb says Scale AI tracks these workers with no legal basis. Noyb says this breaks the GDPR, the data protection law of the European Union.

What noyb says

Noyb says that Persona, a firm that checks the identity of workers for Scale AI, collects biometric data. This is body data, such as a face. It also collects IP addresses (the internet address of a device), device data, location and credit data.

Noyb also says Scale AI collects device data, not only from Outlier tasks. It sends this data to LinkedIn, TikTok and Facebook.

The proof

The source gives no test results. It gives the claims of noyb and a report by the French research group DIPLab, written earlier this month. Noyb says Scale AI did not give workers the records of their data after they wrote to it.

What is not known

Scale AI did not answer questions. The source does not say if an authority will start an investigation. Noyb wants the authorities in the four countries to make a full investigation and, if necessary, to give Scale AI a penalty.

Insight: Privacy law now reaches the workers behind AI

In October 2026 the UK privacy regulator, the ICO, said ten AI developers changed how they use personal data. These new complaints point data law at the contract workers of a firm that counts OpenAI, xAI, Anthropic and Google as customers. This reads as a second front: after the model makers, the human labor behind AI is a target. Companies that buy data work can get questions from regulators.