Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has invested heavily in smart glasses in recent years. Users can record what they are looking at or, through AI assistance, get answers to questions.
But according to Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten, users' recordings from the glasses do not stay local but are sent, via Meta's infrastructure, to different places around the world - often without users realizing it. SvD and GP have spoken to a subcontractor for Meta in Kenya, where employees said they saw people engaging in sexual activity and using toilets, among other things.
A Meta spokesperson says that content from the glasses is handled “in accordance with Meta AI’s terms of service and privacy policy.”
