Meta's AI Glasses Record Sensitive Footage Reviewed by Kenyan Data Annotators

Meta's AI-powered Ray-Ban smart glasses record images and short videos activated by voice commands, with some footage reportedly including sensitive content such as people undressing or engaging in intimate acts. Data annotators employed by Meta's subcontractor Sama in Nairobi review this material to train AI systems. While Meta states that faces are blurred during annotation, workers say anonymisation is sometimes ineffective. Meta's terms allow manual review of AI interactions, raising privacy concerns about user awareness and data handling.