Verified people, consenting places, reviewed minutes.
Open upload-anything programmes in Nigeria drew fraud. We built the opposite: no camera-roll uploads, no paid task before an ID check, and a person looks at every minute before anyone is paid or any buyer sees it.
People
- BVN or NIN checked against the national record.
- A live selfie, taken in the app, matched to the ID photo.
- Name and date of birth must match what they typed.
- Paid only to a bank account in the same name.
- One person, one account: duplicate IDs and faces are refused.
Workplaces
- Every shop is registered by a TrustAm field agent in person.
- The owner gives consent before the first recording there.
- A shop-front photo and a map pin with a 150 m fence.
- Recording only counts inside the fence.
Every minute
- A random 3-digit code read aloud at the start, with both hands shown.
- Motion sensors and GPS recorded alongside the video.
- Automatic checks for black frames, frozen video, duplicates and still phones.
- A trained reviewer approves or cuts each minute.
- Contributors are paid only for approved minutes.
Consent on video, in their own language.
Before their first task, each contributor records a short selfie video saying the consent line in English or Pidgin: that their recordings can be licensed to companies that train AI, in Nigeria and abroad. We store the video, the text, the language, the version and the time. Your delivery manifest carries the consent ID and version for every clip.
Bystanders
Faces and number plates are blurred in every delivered file. Paired speakers in conversation tasks each give their own consent. We never record children, bedrooms or bathrooms, cash being counted, bank cards, ID documents, screens with personal data, banks or the police and military.
Withdrawal and deletion
A contributor can stop future licensing or ask us to delete their data at any time. We delete it from our systems and stop future sales, and we ask companies that already received it to delete it too. Withdrawn clips are left out of every later delivery.
NDPA 2023, in plain words.
TrustAm Limited (CAC RC 9391501, Lagos) is the data controller under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023. We keep a record of processing and a data protection impact assessment for this programme.
- Raw recordings sit in a restricted store for 90 days for appeals and QA, then are deleted unless a contract needs them.
- Reviewers see blurred media and a masked identity only. They never see bank details or a full BVN or NIN.
- Only two roles can open raw media, and every view is logged.
- BVN and NIN are stored as a salted hash plus the last four digits. Bank account numbers are encrypted.
- Deliveries go out as signed links that expire in seven days.
Questions about data protection: [email protected]