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2.1. Compromise of privacy by obtaining, leaking or correctly inferring sensitive information
Risk Domain
- Privacy & Security
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AI
Timing
Post-deployment
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Unintentional
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Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta's new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people's lives.
The advertisement is everywhere…
No one likes being recorded by Meta’s Ray-Bans smart glasses, which have gotten increasingly popular in the last year or so. Now the wearers know how everyone else feels. According to a joint investigation published by Swedish newspapers Sv…
Meta is facing a new class action lawsuit over its AI smart glasses and their lack of privacy, after an investigation by Swedish newspapers found that workers at a Kenya-based subcontractor are reviewing footage from customers' glasses, whi…
Meta's AI-powered smart glasses could be sending sensitive footage to human reviewers in Nairobi, Kenya, according to an investigation by the Swedish outlets Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten. The report, which was published last week,…
The Oversight Labs, a Kenyan digital rights group, has asked the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) to investigate whether footage captured by Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses is being used unlawfully to train artificial intelligen…
Subcontractors see intimate Meta AI visual queries from the company's smart glasses, sometimes accidentally triggered, a report from two Swedish newspapers revealed.
Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten's joint report has led to widesprea…
The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) has launched investigations into privacy concerns surrounding the use of Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, following mounting pressure from civil society and the public.
In a formal response d…
In SvD and GP's investigation, workers who train Meta's AI describe how Meta's smart glasses can capture deeply private moments on video without users realizing it. Visits to the bathroom and moments of changing clothes, for example, may ap…
More than 1,000 low-paid workers in Kenya have been abruptly sacked by an outsourcing company contracted by Meta, in what activists said was a shocking move exposing the precariousness of tech jobs in the global south.
Sama, a company based…
In an office building on Mombasa Road in Nairobi, thousands of the AI revolution's heavy-duty workers work. People who are supposed to teach the systems to understand what is captured in images.
They are called "annotators" and their work i…
In February, numerous workers from a company that Meta contracted to perform data annotation for Ray-Ban Meta reported viewing sensitive, embarrassing, and seemingly private footage recorded by the smart glasses. About two months later, Met…
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,…
Remember the appalling but utterly-unsurprising story two months ago where a team of investigative reporters in Sweden uncovered a company in Kenya contracted by Meta to review video content captured by Meta's "smart" glasses? They spoke to…
In April, Kenyan data worker Grace* worked the night shift for Sama --- a San Francisco-based outsourcing firm with physical offices in Nairobi that supplied trainers for Meta's AI systems, including Meta's AI-powered Ray‑Ban glasses.
"You'…
On April 16 this year, the Nairobi outsourcing firm Sama told 1,108 of its workers they were losing their jobs. Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, had walked away from a contract that paid most of those salaries. Severance is being wo…
