Facebook’s parent company Meta has introduced AI smart glasses in a tie-up with Ray-Ban. Through the smart glasses, you can record video and capture photos of beautiful places you visit, and you can also speak with the glasses, like “Hey Meta, translate this.” You can ask questions about any object, such as “What is this?” or “What is that?” To use this without having any problems, you need to share data with them for the training and betterment of the product, and it was already mentioned in the privacy policy of the product.
But you don’t know where your data has been shared and how they are processing it. When you say “Hey Meta,” the glasses record video or audio and send it to the Meta server. From the server, you will get the answer to the request you have sent. But what about the recordings you have shared? They have been seen by Meta subcontracting employees for annotation.
One of the companies is based in Kenya, where your data will be seen by employees for annotation. They describe the objects in your videos, such as “This is a TV” or “This is a smartphone.” They have also seen unwanted sensitive footage of users, including sensitive document details like credit cards and other personal information.
They can see your private moments and everything. From this report, a former Meta employee stated that the faces of people in the videos would be blurred, but in reality, low-paid workers in Kenya said they were seeing full images of users, stating that sometimes the blurring does not work very well.
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