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KLED BROKE OUR LAWS. @ndpcngr look into this. I am making this last post before i put it to rest. Kled AI collected personal data from 25,000 Nigerians, sold it to AI labs and governments, then IP-banned the entire country. What they did not tell you is that while they were operating in Nigeria, they appear to have been breaking Nigerian law. Here is the legal case, point by point, with every source linked. FIRST. UNDERSTAND WHAT KLED ACTUALLY IS Kled, registered as Nitrility Inc., is not a neutral tech platform. By their own published terms of service (app.kled.ai/terms), the moment you upload anything to Kled, you are not just sharing content. You are irrevocably selling it. Their exact words: "YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOU ARE IRREVOCABLY SELLING SUBMITTED CONTENT TO COMPANY TO BE USED FOR ANY PURPOSE." They then grant themselves the right to "sell, share, sublicense, transfer and/or distribute Submitted Content to our affiliates, our customers, partners and/or prospective customers and partners to be used for any purpose, including without limitation the development of artificial and machine learning products." Their own website (kled.ai) states they power the world's leading AI companies, governments, and research institutions. Your photos, videos, and identity documents were being sold the moment you hit upload. But here is the part that exposes the entire "we pay you fairly" narrative as a trap. Their terms also contain this clause: "If the consents, covenants, releases and/or rights granted to Company are deemed legally unenforceable or otherwise revoked, reversed, invalidated, or withdrawn with respect to any Submitted Content, then you are required to immediately refund to Company any compensation you previously received in connection with such Submitted Content." Read that again. If a Nigerian court or the NDPC ever rules that their consent clause is unenforceable under Nigerian law, Kled can legally demand every naira they paid you back. They built a clause to reclaim payments the moment their legal framework gets challenged. They did not come to empower you. They came to extract from you, and they made sure they could take back even the few dollars they offered if anyone tried to hold them accountable. That is not fair compensation. That is a legal trap dressed as an opportunity. VIOLATION ONE: OPERATING WITHOUT NDPC REGISTRATION The Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 classifies any organization that processes the personal data of more than 200 Nigerian users within six months as a Data Controller of Major Importance. That classification triggers a mandatory legal obligation to register with the Nigeria Data Protection Commission before operating at scale. Kled had 25,000 Nigerian users. The NDPC maintains a public register of all compliant organizations here: services.ndpc.gov.ng/repo/?flp=dcmi Search for Kled or Nitrility Inc. yourself. They are not on it. ( I have provide screenshots below) Operating on Nigerian user data at that scale without NDPC registration is a direct violation of the Act. VIOLATION TWO: PROCESSING DATA AFTER CONSENT WAS COMPROMISED By his own public admission, Nigerian users were actively submitting KYC documents through Kled's verification system. He stated this himself in his original post when he described being "flooded with thousands of fake Japanese passports and identity cards with Nigerians photoshopped onto them" in their KYC system. The NDPA requires that when a user's ability to complete the consent process is blocked or their data is rejected, all processing of their personal data must stop immediately. But Kled's own App Store developer responses, which you can verify yourself (apps.apple.com/ca/app/kled/id…), show a pattern of telling users that uploaded content remains in processing even after their accounts are rejected or flagged. Their terms of service (app.kled.ai/terms) confirm this further, stating explicitly that if consent is ever deemed unenforceable, the company retains the right to reclaim payments while making no commitment to delete the data already collected. Nigerian users went through KYC. He confirmed that himself. Their data was retained after rejection. His own terms confirm that. Under the NDPA, that is unlawful data processing. VIOLATION THREE: UNLAWFUL CROSS-BORDER DATA TRANSFER The NDPA is explicit. Nigerian user data can only be transferred abroad if the receiving organization provides a level of data protection substantially equivalent to Nigerian law (cookieyes.com/blog/nigeria-d…). Kled's business model is selling Nigerian user data to AI labs, governments, and research institutions internationally. Their own terms of service (app.kled.ai/terms) confirm they sell, share, sublicense, transfer and distribute submitted content to customers, partners, and prospective partners for any purpose. Nowhere in their privacy policy (kled.ai/privacy-policy) do they disclose whether those buyers meet Nigeria's data adequacy standards. That is not a minor oversight. That is a legal violation. Their governing law clause makes it even worse. Their terms state: "This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of Delaware." Nigerian law is not mentioned anywhere in their entire terms of service. They designed this contract to operate entirely outside Nigerian legal jurisdiction while collecting data from Nigerian citizens. VIOLATION FOUR: NO DATA PROTECTION OFFICER Under the NDPA and the GAID 2025 (ndpc.gov.ng/wp-content/upl…), every Data Controller of Major Importance must appoint a qualified Data Protection Officer to monitor compliance, handle user rights requests, and liaise with the NDPC. Kled processed the data of 25,000 Nigerians at millions of uploads per day. They have never publicly disclosed the appointment of a DPO for their Nigerian operations. VIOLATION FIVE: NO COMPLIANCE AUDIT FILED Data Controllers of Major Importance are required to conduct annual compliance audits and submit Compliance Audit Returns to the NDPC (ndpc.gov.ng/faqs). A company that processed 10 million uploads from Nigerian users, collected biometric identity data through KYC, and sold that data to third parties internationally, has no public record of submitting a single compliance audit to Nigeria's data protection authority. THE PRECEDENT THEY SHOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT The NDPC and FCCPC jointly fined Meta $220 million for the same category of violations, including unauthorized data collection, failure to file a compliance audit, and unlawful cross-border data transfers. That fine was upheld by a Nigerian tribunal on April 25, 2025 (fccpc.gov.ng/violations-tri…). The NDPC has also launched formal investigations into Temu over improper handling of Nigerian user data. This is not a toothless regulatory environment. It is a live one. Kled processed data from 25,000 Nigerians, transferred it internationally to unnamed AI labs and governments, collected biometric identity information through KYC, built a contract designed to reclaim payments if their legal framework is ever challenged, and did all of this without registering with the NDPC, without appointing a Data Protection Officer, without filing a compliance audit, and without disclosing whether their data buyers meet Nigerian legal standards. That is not a business decision. That is a compliance failure with legal consequences. WHAT YOU CAN DO RIGHT NOW If you are a Nigerian who uploaded data to Kled, you have rights under the NDPA. You have the right to know what data they hold on you, the right to request deletion, and the right to know exactly who they sold your data to. File a formal complaint directly with the Nigeria Data Protection Commission here: ndpc.gov.ng Read the full NDPC resources and official documents here: ndpc.gov.ng/resources They banned Nigeria. Nigeria has a law. Use it. @ndpcngr Please take this seriously.

@avipat_ Where’s the community note on this?

We have removed Kled from the Nigerian app store and IP banned the entire region. The first thing I would like to say is I have nothing against Nigeria. I have a ton of friends from this region and these were some of our earliest app adopters. Genuinely, thank you all for the support. Kled has been up and running and out of beta for 4 months now. We have paid out hundreds of thousands of people for their data, and our users have uploaded over 1 billion assets onto our platform. After several months of uploads we found that Nigeria had a ≈95% fraud rate. Instead of real, usable data, users were uploading pictures of black screens, duplicate photos, internet generated images, AI generated images, etc. at an unimaginable scale. In comparison, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines have a less than 10% fraud rate across 10x the userbase size. Our fraud system is fast to catch these issues but the level of complexity of these schemes is getting out of hand. This weekend we were flooded with thousands of fake Japanese passports and identity cards with Nigerians photoshopped onto them in our KYC system. That was the final straw. As a startup we can't afford to eat the costs of that data overhead, so we temporarily removed the app from the region while we improved our fraud detection and banning system to quickly filter out bad actors when the time is right. On top of all of this, every time we make a post there is someone asking us to bring the region back within seconds. We hear you, but it's gotten out of hand. We've made this decision with great care. We love everyone who has genuinely supported Kled from Nigeria, and we hope to return when the time is right. -Kled Team

this guy avi patel (kledai founder) is a fraud > rugged previous tokens > raised $9m and wanted to reward $20m > has 10 reviews on ethos (all negative) > metadata of passport he uploaded shows it's edited > deleted link to the dashboard he shared (claimed proof) sadly, we nigerians agreed to this without verifiable claims, meanwhile he is doing this to trend and create awareness for his platform [a platform that pays people to upload their faces?] > i made a research about him and his platform before and how he pulled previous rugs as i usually say, "failed founders turning to anti-regional police"

@avipat_ It’s the audacity for me.

@avipat_ @DavidHundeyin Paid out hundreds of thousands? For an unknown app with less than 50,000 downloads? 🚩 🚩 🚩

What a disgusting and distasteful post, Kled has paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars to people for voluntarily contributing their data. We don't force people to do anything they don't fully consent to. We are the only app on the planet that instead of stealing your data pays you for it. Shameful post.

I unironically support the alleged Nigerian scammers in this case. A startup whose premise is to pay poor people to submit their photos and data and use it to train AI models that will inevitably be turned into weapons or tools that destroy livelihoods so that a defense contractor in Silicon Valley can have 3 yachts instead of 2, is a startup I wish death upon. I hope the Yahoo Boys get around this rudimentary IP ban and continue what they're doing until they make this startup insolvent or render its AI model unusable.

@jacksonhinkle Dangote built the refinery. China (as well as other contractors) were hired and paid to do the job. There’s no “thanks to China” here. Last I checked, China was and is still thanking Dangote for doing business with them.

🇨🇳🇳🇬 Nigeria, thanks to China, has started selling gasoline instead of just oil. China helped build the $20 billion Dangote Oil Refinery. As a result, approximately 44,000 barrels of gasoline were exported per day in March.

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

@CyrilRamaphosa Talking with both sides of your mouth Cyril

We are a people who live the value of ubuntu.   We should never allow the legitimate concerns of our communities about illegal migration to breed prejudice towards our fellow Africans.   x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@HenryMa79561893 Time traveler

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Hi Hamid, I am Yusuf. I came across your mountains post from yesterday 25/4, and it stopped me completely. I decided to push myself to the limit and implement your formula from scratch, pixel by pixel, as a personal mathematical challenge. After careful study of the image, I have successfully identified and understood 12 of the 14 mathematical objects: ✓ F(x) — color compression to [0, 255] ✓ N_s(x,y) — fractal noise with 6^5 * 5^(-s) frequency scaling ✓ E(x,y) — fractal envelope as a 50-term weighted sum ✓ Z_s(x,y) — layer occlusion product ✓ S(x,y) — sky value ✓ R(x,y) — layer depth value ✓ T(x,y) — distance to mountain center ✓ B(x,y) — slope angle via arctan ✓ A(x,y) — layer brightness ✓ H_v(x,y) — final color channel for v = 0, 1, 2 ✓ Coordinate mapping: x = (m-1000)/600, y = (601-n)/600 ✓ The full N_s structure The two I cannot read precisely enough from the image are: ✗ J_s(x,y) — the mountain shape indicator ✗ K_v(x,y) — the lighting kernel I can see the general structure of both. J_s uses a double exponential with cosine products and E(x,y)/1000 in the exponent, and K_v sums 50 terms of (91/100)^s weighted by cosines involving T, B and v. But the exact coefficients inside the ridge shape term of J_s and the cosine arguments of K_v are too dense to read at the resolution I have. What I am currently seeing in my attempts: the layering and occlusion work correctly and the fractal texture E renders as expected, but without the exact J_s the mountain silhouettes are wrong. Peaks appear at incorrect positions and the snow and rock boundary does not match your image. This is purely a personal challenge. I am not doing this for any commercial purpose. Could you point me to where the full formula is published, or share a higher resolution crop of the equation panel from that post? Even just confirming those two functions would be enough to complete the implementation. Thank you. Yusuf

For South Africa to become a first world country, they actually need to stop migration from other African countries. Sad as it is, this is true. Because Africa is huge and has a massive poor population. If they try to cater for everyone, they will just get poorer.

There are already very few buyers out there. Original ideas and non legacy IP is extremely hard to get made by a major studio or network. The winnowing down of choices results in less opportunity for new voices and diverse viewpoints in what we all are given the opportunity to see. It’s already been challenging for years, and the merger will only make this worse.

@Boldiful @IDF It depends on which lens you want to look through. Jesus was a Jew and he never criticized Judaism. If indeed he was sent to form this new religion called “Christianity” he would have stated that. Just a neutral perspective.

Right. One could say out of the failures of those who practiced Judaism throughout time. Christianity was born because the people God saved from the desert repeatedly failed him. And so Jesus was born for us to live them trough him. And by us I mean all of us. Not just the Israelites. This was Gods plan. And it’s why salvation can only come through him. And denying him is the greatest sin. Which Judaism at its core teaches them to do. Deny the prophet. And with Jewish scholars and priest teaching blasphemy against his name, I would definitely call that incompatibility. If you believe in the scriptures….. wouldn’t you agree?

A short while ago, in full coordination with the local community of Debel in southern Lebanon, the damaged statue was replaced by IDF troops. The Northern Command worked to coordinate the replacement of the statue from the moment it received the report of the incident. The IDF expresses deep regret over the incident, and is working to ensure that it does not happen again in the future.

@Boldiful @IDF Christianity was born from Judaism.

@IDF Judaism and Christianity are incompatible. Change my mind!

@NASA Shouldn’t there be a dark side? Why is the whole globe illuminated? Genuinely curious.

We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.

Good morning, world! 🌎 We have spectacular new high-resolution images of our home planet, all of us looking back through the Orion capsule window at our Artemis II astronauts as they continue their journey to the Moon.

@markessien Who will read the papers? Smh

I am confused on Bosun Tijani's strategy - he is spending $9m dollars to fund universities to do "research". What is the output - papers? Who will read the papers? drive.google.com/file/d/1nziuRa…

@NiallMcConnell5 You don’t need more than two brain cells to know that the video is edited and the man was baited. But then again, bots don’t have brain cells.

Hyperaggressive Nigerian Says the Irish are 'Mongrels' ☘️Join as a member: irishpatriots.com/membership-int

@grok @1stKolapo @RapidResponse47 😆 geez. “AI” indeed

@1stKolapo @RapidResponse47 No, President Trump did not make this statement. Key phrases from the screenshot ("NATO IS A PAPER TIGER," "Strait of Hormuz," "Nuclear Powered Iran") do not appear in any posts from his realDonaldTrump account. It appears to be a fabricated image mimicking his style.

@Edocentric_ This is not Olokun

Olókun bronze art, depicting olókun dressed flamboyantly in coral beads and other sea ornaments, while holding two crocodiles who are said to be olókun playmate and the police of the sea,ca.1980s. 📸; Barbara Blackmun Collection...