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Meta Workers Say They’re Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users’ Smart Glasses
Posted on 3/4/26 at 1:47 pm
Posted on 3/4/26 at 1:47 pm
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If tweet fails to load, click here. TLDR: Meta subcontracts out to Kenya to review footage to train their AI. Workers for the subcontractor are seeing Meta glasses users using the bathroom, getting dressed, and private details like credit card numbers.
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Everyone’s missing the real story here.
Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses need human data annotators to train the AI. When you say “Hey Meta” and ask the glasses to analyze something, that video gets sent to Meta’s servers, then routed to Sama, a subcontractor in Nairobi, Kenya. Workers there manually label objects in your footage. They see everything you recorded, intentionally or not.
7 million pairs sold in 2025 alone. Every single pair generates training data that flows through human eyes in Kenya. Workers told Swedish journalists they see people undressing, using bathrooms, having sex, and accidentally filming bank card details. One worker said “we see everything, from living rooms to naked bodies.”
Meta’s automatic face anonymization is supposed to protect people in the footage. Workers say it fails in certain lighting. Faces that should be blurred are sometimes fully visible. The person you recorded without knowing? A stranger in Nairobi can identify them.
Buried in Meta’s terms of service is one sentence doing enormous legal work: the company reserves the right to conduct “manual (human) review” of your AI interactions. That’s the legal cover for routing intimate footage from Western homes to a $2/hour labor force operating under NDAs, office surveillance cameras, and a strict no-questions policy. Workers say if you raise concerns about what you’re seeing, you’re fired.
This is the same company, Sama, that TIME exposed in 2023 for paying Kenyan workers $2/hour to label graphic content for OpenAI while being billed at $12.50/hour per worker. Workers described the experience as torture. Sama ended that contract, then pivoted to labeling Meta’s glasses footage. Same workforce. Same rates.
Meta markets these glasses as “designed with your privacy in mind.” The privacy design is a tiny LED light on the frame that most people don’t notice. The data pipeline behind it routes your bedroom footage to a contractor with a documented history of worker exploitation, failed anonymization, and union-busting lawsuits.
And the next generation of these glasses? Meta is planning to add facial recognition. The same system that can’t reliably blur faces in training data wants to start identifying them on purpose.
The LED light on the frame is doing about as much for your privacy as the terms of service nobody reads.
Most of the info was taken from This Article on Futurism.com.
This post was edited on 3/4/26 at 1:49 pm
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Posted on 3/4/26 at 1:50 pm to boxcarbarney
"why do you need those glasses on to frick me?"
Posted on 3/4/26 at 1:50 pm to boxcarbarney
Who the frick didn’t think that would happen??
Posted on 3/4/26 at 1:51 pm to boxcarbarney
anyone buying or using those stupid things gets what they deserve
Posted on 3/4/26 at 1:52 pm to boxcarbarney
Someone should take a nasty shite and then look down at it and say - Hey Meta, analyze this
Posted on 3/4/26 at 1:54 pm to lsutigersFTW
Sounds like that may already be happening. 
Posted on 3/4/26 at 1:58 pm to boxcarbarney
Posted on 3/4/26 at 1:58 pm to boxcarbarney
I’m doing my best to expand meta AI’s mind with numerous oddities and my penis
Posted on 3/4/26 at 2:01 pm to boxcarbarney
For the record they are not looking at someone's glasses when they are in use. Its probably people who catalog all of the data that come from glasses. Pictures, etc
So if someone takes a picture of someone on the toilet and they used their Ray-Ban Meta glasses then it will be seen. So the people seeing it will likely never see those people in person, but I get it does suck that someone will still see it.
So if someone takes a picture of someone on the toilet and they used their Ray-Ban Meta glasses then it will be seen. So the people seeing it will likely never see those people in person, but I get it does suck that someone will still see it.
Posted on 3/4/26 at 2:02 pm to boxcarbarney
Those glasses are life changing for a blind friend that I have.
Beyond that, I seriously don’t see the point.
Beyond that, I seriously don’t see the point.
Posted on 3/4/26 at 2:03 pm to boxcarbarney
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7 million pairs
How many workers do they have to cover 7 million?
Posted on 3/4/26 at 2:04 pm to boxcarbarney
Not reading the User Agreement before selecting “I Agree”
Posted on 3/4/26 at 2:04 pm to boxcarbarney
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Sama, a subcontractor in Nairobi, Kenya. Workers
I definitely trust them with my information. Also worth noting is their superior intellect that enables them to help train ai.
Posted on 3/4/26 at 2:07 pm to OweO
quote:thank goodness we have you here to set the record straight on things of this nature
OweO
Posted on 3/4/26 at 2:07 pm to DustyDinkleman
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Not reading the User Agreement before selecting “I Agree”
Downvote this post if you have EVER read an entire user agreement.
Posted on 3/4/26 at 2:07 pm to cgrand
You want to meet me at Sonic?
Posted on 3/4/26 at 2:14 pm to OweO
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For the record they are not looking at someone's glasses when they are in use. Its probably people who catalog all of the data that come from glasses. Pictures, etc
So if someone takes a picture of someone on the toilet and they used their Ray-Ban Meta glasses then it will be seen. So the people seeing it will likely never see those people in person, but I get it does suck that someone will still see it.
Or if someone accidentally records, or inadvertently leaves the glasses recording. From the article:
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“I saw a video where a man puts the glasses on the bedside table and leaves the room,” one data annotator told the newspapers. “Shortly afterwards his wife comes in and changes her clothes.”
Posted on 3/4/26 at 2:15 pm to boxcarbarney
This is my shocked face that meta is tracking people and storing their data.
Posted on 3/4/26 at 2:20 pm to cgrand
I use a pair to help film fishing videos
I wear glasses/contacts so its really the only time I use em because I hate wearing my contacts these days.
I wear glasses/contacts so its really the only time I use em because I hate wearing my contacts these days.
Posted on 3/4/26 at 2:24 pm to OweO
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You want to meet me at Sonic?
That could be interesting…jousting?
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