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by mosselman 2372 days ago
"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.

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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 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".

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 :)
updated :)
We never want to do anything illegal.

Different laws apply to different places.

We care about privacy.

Added some proper legal now :)
Added some proper legal now :)
We never want to break the law or abuse privacy rights but having "public goods" data like maps makes everybody's life better.
“We never want to break the law or abuse privacy rights but”
fixed