Matt Wolfe explains how Meta's AI glasses can send video to third-party reviewers in Africa without proper user consent. If privacy settings aren't configured correctly, footage of bathrooms, changing rooms, and credit card details gets reviewed by humans. Meta faces lawsuits in New Jersey and California for violating privacy laws and false advertising.
This next one is kind of a crazy story. This is a pretty long in-depth article, but here's the TL;DR of it. Basically, they found out that if you don't have your privacy settings set up right on your Meta AI glasses, AI can use the data that's coming into the video for training. Well, that training is all going to a company in Africa where humans are actually reviewing that footage. And as you can imagine, there's a lot of footage that that's coming in and getting viewed by humans. You know, people in the bathroom, people getting changed, people looking at their credit cards where the credit card details are in full view. All of this information that's being recorded by the glasses. And well, now there's some more legal battles looming for Meta. Now the tech giant is facing a lawsuit in the United States as well. In the newly filed complaint, plaintiffs of New Jersey and California allege that Meta violated privacy laws and engaged in false advertising. Now according to Meta, unless users choose to share media they've captured with Meta or others, that media stays on the user's device. But from my understanding of reading that other article, you have to actually turn off the feature to share it with Meta. Otherwise, it's kind of on by default. That may have changed recently. They may have made it turned off by default now. I'm not 100% sure, but it's still weird and creepy nonetheless.
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