WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT
Expensify leaked Personally identifiable information (PII) because they use cheap labor to process documents; here's a better solution.
Expensify CEO says its ‘automated’ service is ‘proud’ to use humans to process receipts
http://www.businessinsider.com/expensify-is-proud-to-use-humans-in-its-automated-service-2017-11
TL;DR: Expensify’s deceptive mechanical turk army may have resulted in me coming within seconds of losing $30k, and almost certainly leaves them exposed to massive liabilities as they wantonly give away personally identifiable information to low-paid contract workers that are not bound to confidentiality.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15796189
The “machine learning” behind that application you’ve been using to scan your receipts for business expenses and company benefit filings may not have been entirely machine-based—and that could have some privacy implications, despite what the company has advertised. Expensify, the paperless business expense management service with more than 4.5 million users, has been using humans to transcribe at least some of the expense and benefit documents the company’s software processes—and over the past few months, some of those humans were recruited through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service. More in the News.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
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