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Re:Show HN: Sebenz.ai – Convert your time and human intellig... by mosselman on Monday December 23, 2019 @02:51PM (#21866697)
"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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Re:Show HN: Sebenz.ai – Convert your time and human intellig... by lucb1e on Monday December 23, 2019 @03:01PM (#21866794)
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".

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Re:Show HN: Sebenz.ai – Convert your time and human intellig... by young_blood on Monday December 23, 2019 @03:17PM (#21866957)
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...

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Re:Show HN: Sebenz.ai – Convert your time and human intellig... by _xxsy on Monday December 23, 2019 @04:04PM (#21867368)
Added some proper legal now :)
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Re:Show HN: Sebenz.ai – Convert your time and human intellig... by _xxsy on Monday December 23, 2019 @03:20PM (#21866989)
updated :)
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Re:Show HN: Sebenz.ai – Convert your time and human intellig... by _xxsy on Monday December 23, 2019 @03:25PM (#21867027)
We never want to do anything illegal.

Different laws apply to different places.

We care about privacy.

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Re:Show HN: Sebenz.ai – Convert your time and human intellig... by _xxsy on Monday December 23, 2019 @04:04PM (#21867365)
Added some proper legal now :)
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Re:Show HN: Sebenz.ai – Convert your time and human intellig... by _xxsy on Monday December 23, 2019 @04:04PM (#21867367)
Added some proper legal now :)
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Re:Show HN: Sebenz.ai – Convert your time and human intellig... by _xxsy on Monday December 23, 2019 @03:24PM (#21867024)
We never want to break the law or abuse privacy rights but having "public goods" data like maps makes everybody's life better.
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Re:Show HN: Sebenz.ai – Convert your time and human intellig... by ffdjjjffjj on Monday December 23, 2019 @03:37PM (#21867139)
“We never want to break the law or abuse privacy rights but”
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Re:Show HN: Sebenz.ai – Convert your time and human intellig... by _xxsy on Monday December 23, 2019 @03:40PM (#21867162)
fixed
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