Meta's Ray-Ban AI Glasses Footage Reviewed by Kenyan Workers Amid Privacy Concerns

Meta's AI-powered Ray-Ban smart glasses record short videos and images that are sent to a subcontractor, Sama, in Nairobi, Kenya, where workers manually review and label the footage to train AI systems. Reports from Swedish newspapers reveal that annotators have viewed sensitive and intimate content, including people undressing and private moments, often without users' awareness. Meta states some reviews are automated or manual, with face-blurring tools in place, though workers say anonymization is sometimes ineffective. Privacy concerns have been raised about the handling of such data.