I highly recommend reading the original investigative report:
Meta has never cared about privacy and isn’t going to start caring now. Meta got called out by a contractor’s employees and cancelled the contract. It is only matter of time before Meta finds a contractor who supports Meta and Mark Zukerberg’s lack of ethics.
Yeah, there is a reason I’m not big on these things despite wearable tech being objectively cool.
Meta is under pressure to explain why it cancelled a major contract with a company it was using to train AI, shortly after some of its Kenya-based workers alleged they had to view graphic content captured by Meta smart glasses.
In February, workers at the company, Sama, told two Swedish newspapers they had witnessed glasses users going to the toilet and having sex.
Less than two months later, Meta ended its contract with Sama, which Sama said would result in 1,108 workers being made redundant.
Meta says it’s because Sama did not meet its standards, a criticism Sama rejects. A Kenyan workers’ organisation alleges Meta’s decision was caused by the staff speaking out.
Meta has not addressed that allegation but told BBC News in a statement it had “decided to end our work with Sama because they don’t meet our standards”.
Sama has defended its work.
“Sama has consistently met the operational, security and quality standards required across our client engagements, including with Meta,” it said in a statement.
“At no point were we notified of any failure to meet those standards, and we stand firmly behind the quality and integrity of our work.”
deleted by creator
I wonder if their next contractor will get the message?
So don’t speak out that these glasses record constantly and capture everything. Most of it illegal. Also how the fuck do these things work in states that have recording laws? Does me no good in Oklahoma, but some states you have to get permission to record.
I know words are squishy… but are these… films? It seems a bit strong to use that word to describe my glasses recording me peeing or whatever…
