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Re:Expensify sent images with personal data to Mechanical Tu... by mLuby on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @08:01PM (#15812442)
Interesting. Can you describe these safeguards in any level of detail? Letting a human see clients' personal info seems fundamental to the OCR transcription process whether it's MTurk or Scale.
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Re:Expensify sent images with personal data to Mechanical Tu... by sandmansandine on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @08:22PM (#15812584)
I'm also interested in this, looking at Scale and their jobs page I don't see that they're hiring for any of their transcribers or people to turk any of their other services, so the humans are outsourced I assume.
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Re:Expensify sent images with personal data to Mechanical Tu... by sjg007 on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @08:47PM (#15812748)
Traditionally, this type of work is outsourced to the Philippines sometimes India and China (depending on language skills).
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