Investigation: Sama data annotators in Nairobi say they view private videos from Ray-Ban Meta glasses, like bathroom visits; ex-Meta staff say faces are blurred
Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta's new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce …
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Discussion
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@ronanprice
Ronan Price
on bluesky
This is good reporting from Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten about how Meta's smart glasses sends lots of video clips recorded - in the bedroom, the bathroom and more - to humans in Kenya for review to improve the AI. But few users are actually aware of how much their priv…
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@savasavasava.myatproto.social
Rom Comrade
on bluesky
fucking hell. the layered harms of these technologies are going to take so long to heal 😔 [embedded post]
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@hypervisible.blacksky.app
@hypervisible.blacksky.app
on bluesky
“The workers in Kenya say that it feels uncomfortable to go to work. They tell us about deeply private video clips, which appear to come straight out of Western homes, from people who use the glasses in their everyday lives. — Several describe video material showing bathroom v…
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@draglikepull
@draglikepull
on bluesky
This is a bigger, more complicated undertaking, but we've also gotta build a new legal framework around terms of service. The idea that you “agree” to anything buried in dense legalese thousands of words long is nonsense. There should be fairly strict limits on what terms are a…
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@draglikepull
@draglikepull
on bluesky
We've gotta just ban these things, man.
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@geomblog
Suresh Venkatasubramanian
on bluesky
This is absolutely frightening [embedded post]
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r/technology
r
on reddit
Meta's AI Smart Glasses and Data Privacy Concerns: Workers Say “We See Everything”
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@noaasm
Norman
on bluesky
In @svenskadagbladet1.bsky.social and @goteborgsposten.bsky.social investigation, the people behind Meta's smart glasses testify to the hidden stream of privacy-sensitive data that is fed straight into the tech giant's systems. — www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/met...
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@hypervisible.blacksky.app
@hypervisible.blacksky.app
on bluesky
“If a wearer wants to make use of that AI, though, they must agree to Meta's terms of service that allow any data captured to be reviewed by humans.”
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r/BlackboxAI_
r
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Meta Workers Say They're Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users' Smart Glasses
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r/cybersecurity
r
on reddit
Meta's AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns: Workers say “we see everything”