Two senators seek answers from Meta about smart-glasses privacy

Technology · First reported 29 Oct, 10:00 · Updated 21:58

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Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden and Massachusetts Sen. Edward Markey sent Meta a letter seeking details about safeguards, data use and potential privacy harms linked to its smart glasses. Their inquiry follows reporting and other accounts describing people being recorded without their knowledge, including in sensitive situations.

Wyden and Markey asked Meta what protections it has against nonconsensual capture or processing of sensitive imagery, and whether it assessed the glasses’ potential to enable voyeurism or similar privacy invasions.
The letter asks what imagery Meta uses to train AI and whether people can request deletion of biometric and other data captured by the glasses.
The senators cite reporting about smart-glasses videos of men soliciting massage-parlor workers for sex work, as well as reports that footage may be reviewed by contractors for AI training.

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Senators: Ron Wyden of Oregon and Edward Markey of Massachusetts
Requested information: Safeguards, AI-training imagery, potential privacy risks and data deletion options
Prior lawsuit: More than 70 people sued Meta, alleging intimate images and videos were exposed to workers hired to label data for AI.