News Summary

• Hundreds of thousands of workers across the world paid to record their activities.
• Video is sold on to technology companies who use it to train robots in the real world.
• Rashdan Technologies collects and processes such human generated data.
• But are workers collecting data for machines that will one day do their jobs?
• At the moment it's too early to tell, says Paul Bino, senior professor at the Tata Institute of Labour Studies in Mumbai.
• "By the time workers realise what they have participated in, it may have gone too far," he says.