Meta says their smart glasses are built for your privacy.
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Meta says their smart glasses are built for your privacy. A worker in Nairobi says otherwise — and she was watching everything." In February 2026, two Swedish newspapers broke a story that should worry anyone who owns — or is thinking about buying — a pair of Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses. Workers at a Nairobi-based outsourcing company called Sama came forward and said their job was to review raw footage captured by glasses users around the world. Not blurred. Not anonymized. Real footage — including people undressing, having sex, and using the toilet. These weren't hackers. This was the intended pipeline. Meta's AI needs humans to label data before an algorithm can learn to tell a kitchen from a bedroom, or a face from a stranger's. So footage gets routed to contractors, and contractors route it to workers sitting at a desk, watching clip after clip, cataloguing what they see. The workers had no way to contact the people being filmed. No way to flag footage that looked non-consensual. No authority to refuse the work without risking their job. This isn't the first time this exact company has been in this exact position. Between 2019 and 2023, Sama's Nairobi moderators reviewed graphic violence and abuse content for Facebook — and a 2022 investigation found that eighty-one percent of workers tested showed severe or extremely severe symptoms of PTSD. Some were paid as little as a dollar fifty an hour. When this new story broke, Meta's response wasn't to fix the pipeline — it was to end the contract entirely. Over eleven hundred workers got six days' notice before losing their jobs. Meta told the BBC it ended the partnership because the contractor 'didn't meet our standards.' Sama disputed that, saying they were never told of any quality failure — and the timing, just weeks after workers spoke to journalists, raised obvious questions. Now there's a class-action lawsuit in the United States, and the UK's Information Commissioner's Office has opened its own investigation. Kenya's Court of Appeal already ruled that Meta can be sued directly in the country — rejecting the company's attempt to hide behind its outsourcing contracts. So here's the real question: when you put on a device that's always watching, who else is really in the room with you? Is 'reviewed to improve your experience,' buried in a terms-of-service page, the same thing as informed consent? The lawsuits are ongoing, this story is still developing — links to primary sources below." Disclaimer (open with): "This video covers a documented, ongoing investigation with active lawsuits. Details are still emerging — check linked sources for updates."