Seriously people. Bringing “smart” anything into your life is stupid.
An investigation by Swedish outlet Svenska Dagbladet has revealed that Meta’s AI smart glasses are sending video and audio recordings (including footage of naked bodies, bathroom activities, and unblurred bank card numbers) to human data annotators at a Meta subcontractor in Kenya.
Workers there, bound by NDAs, described what they see every day. “We see everything — from living rooms to naked bodies.” Another said: “You understand that it is someone’s private life you are looking at, but at the same time, you are just expected to carry out the work. You are not supposed to question it. If you start asking questions, you are gone.”
Meta says users control their own settings. The terms of service say human review may occur depending on your settings, with no opt-out option for mandatory AI training data.
7 million pairs were sold in 2025 alone. Meta is reportedly pushing to double production to 20 million by end of year.
They’re also working on adding facial recognition directly into the glasses. Two Harvard students already demonstrated they could identify a stranger on the street and find their home address using the glasses and existing software.
Beauty.
For me this nonsense started when I installed a remote controlled garage door opener. For a small monthly fee I could get an ap on my telephone to remotely check on and control my garage door from anywhere in the world. Not only that I could set the garage door to alert me every time it opened or closed. I did not install that software on my telephone. If I can do it, any hacker can too. I have also refused to let my refrigerator and my chest freezer and my shaver send me email messages and I’ll be darned if I will let doors on my house be opened by anything but a real in my hand metal key. And I have tape over my camera on my computer when it’s not in use and we unplug the TV in our bedroom when we make love. I also need to flick a switch to turn lights off and on.
The Deviants Call You Luddite.
Same here. Still trying to figure out how to blind the TV.
When the kids started spouting off to Alexa over Thanksgiving dinner I told them they needed to take her in the yard and shoot her.
I figured out how to “blind the tv” 30 years ago when I threw my sony into a dumpster.
As for Alexa, when ‘she’ can roll a joint and put on some Zappa, maybe I will consider ‘her’ to be useful.
… at a Meta subcontractor in Kenya.
WTF!? That’s all I got … Kenya? WTF!?
I thought the same thing. Nothing good comes out of Kenya. Hello Obama!
Obama was only born in Kenya to claim his father’s legacy admission.
“ Bringing “smart” anything into your life is stupid. ” This has been my philosophy ever since reading a while back that so many (most?) I.T./computer savvy types don’t trust so much of this “smart” technology. The one app I did download (reluctantly, Ticketmaster, only so I could see the Stones last year) ended up getting compromised. Now I won’t download anything (with the exception of Grok).
here here. l got into IT in 1970 and out around 1995.
that 25 years informed my attitude of suspicion, cution, alarm, accurate predictions,
ALL pointing to scepticism and mistrust contributing to the fact
-l created a facebook accout to look up a tattoo artist.
-and another one as part of a music course neither of which ever used again.
-lve never tweeted,
-lve never grokked,
-lve never tiktokked
-etc
the logins via facebook l use my late gf’s account. about 3 years ago l stripped everything personal out of it, cancelled all ‘friends’ and left it that way.
again, driven by my 25 years up to my eyeballs in seeing how powerful these
binary based gadgets are.
I’m going full retro:
I hired my youngest brother to stand beside my TV and change the channel when I tell him.
You must have promised him first dibs on the bottle cap corks.
Everything AI is a surveillance tool. Everything.
lm reticent to wish death on an individual.
Zuckerberg has been in the ‘crosshairs’ for a considerable time now.
I keep tape over my computer camera. My mic is supposedly shut off. Shortly after a conversation with my wife, she looked on her phone and there was a text of the conversation. I was at my computer and mentioned some insignificant shithole country and 10 minutes later a travel ad showed up on my screen. There is a lot of strange shit going on that needs to be stopped.
L – In future Batman movies, the Joker will be modelled after Mark Zuckerberg.
They’re also working on adding facial recognition directly into the glasses. Two Harvard students already demonstrated they could identify a stranger on the street and find their home address using the glasses and existing software.
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There used to be a law that required individuals taking photographs to secure a “model release”. Eventually, that law was overturned if the individual being photographed was in a public area. My understanding is that you still cannot photograph someone who is on private property without securing such a release.
Here’s the thing. The reason you can take photographs of individuals in public property without securing a model release is because there is “no reasonable expectation of privacy” in a public area. HOWEVER, using facial recognition in the same fashion could conceivably cross that line. Photographs are one thing. Securing historical records based on invasive technology without consent is suspect. It will be interesting to see which way the Courts lean.