Digital glasses have been around for some time. Early attempts tried to make them almost a replacement for watching media direct to your eye rather than on your mobile phone or other devices. Early AI developments produced ideas of using such glasses to wear when in an unfamiliar city with maps and directions coming up as you moved around. Advances in AI are producing much more complex functions.
This story is a result of concerns by the UK data watchdog which has approached Meta following a "concerning" report claiming outsourced workers were able to view sensitive content filmed by the company's AI smart glasses.
Meta said subcontracted workers might sometimes review content, including films and images, captured by its AI smart glasses for the purpose of improving the "experience".
Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based Meta subcontractor, according to an investigation by Swedish newspapers, external Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) and Goteborgs-Posten (GP).
You might ask why would this be of any interest to anyone but if you wear such devices at work or reading documents then all of that data can be reviewed by META or those it may sell such data to. At a minimum privacy issues arise but capture commercially sensitive information or even national security information could lead to very dangerous outcomes.
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