Meta smart glasses caught users in private moments

Meta’s smart glasses have been unknowingly recording people getting undressed, sitting on the toilet and even having sex – with the resulting footage then reviewed by data workers thousands of miles away, the Daily Mail writes.

The tech giant boasts that its Ray-Ban glasses, which have built-in camera and microphones, are a product created ‘with your privacy in mind’.

They also have an AI assistant which can be activated by saying the phrase ‘Hey Meta’.

But the same assistant also automatically processes data from the glasses, including speech, text, images and at times video footage, which is then sent to annotators at a third party data company.

That function cannot be turned off.

An investigation by Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet has found that multiple workers have been able to see ‘everything’ users get up to while wearing the glasses.

Staff said the glasses have at times recorded sensitive personal information, such as bank cards.