Remember the X-ray glasses ads (2/3 of the way down the page on the left)?
Posted on 04/30/2026 6:01:26 AM PDT by BenLurkin
In February, workers at the company, Sama, told two Swedish newspapers they had witnessed glasses users going to the toilet and having sex.
Less than two months later, Meta ended its contract with Sama, which Sama said would result in 1,108 workers being made redundant.
Meta says it's because Sama did not meet its standards, a criticism Sama rejects. A Kenyan workers' organisation alleges Meta's decision was caused by the staff speaking out.
Meta has not addressed that allegation but told BBC News in a statement it had "decided to end our work with Sama because they don't meet our standards".
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In late February, Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) and Goteborgs-Posten (GP) published an investigation which included the accounts of unnamed workers who had been asked to review videos filmed by Meta's glasses.
"We see everything - from living rooms to naked bodies," one worker reportedly said.
At the time of the publication, Meta admitted subcontracted workers might sometimes review content filmed on its smart glasses when people shared it with Meta AI.
It said this was for the purpose of improving the customer experience, and was a common practice among other companies.
However, the revelations have prompted regulators to act.
Shortly after the Swedish investigation, the UK data watchdog, the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) wrote to Meta about what it called a "concerning" report.
The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner in Kenya also announced it was commencing an investigation into privacy concerns raised by the glasses.
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I understand the “having sex” part of the article. The rest of it is a mystery.
Anyone monitoring such video feeds will certainly see these things.
Facebook is mad someone made it public.
Remember the X-ray glasses ads (2/3 of the way down the page on the left)?
What are Meta glasses ?
Like Superman X-ray vision ?
I ordered the sea monkeys.....
Since the article is describing going into the bathroom to have sex, it was likely gay hookups.
Forcing your employees to watch gay porn is an invitation to massive lawsuits and fines from the labor board.
Its been a serious problem for years!!
Glasses with embedded video cameras.
If you go to the bathroom wearing them, you are streaming what you can see.
I ordered the giant balloons…..
Yeah, I remember those.. :)
They’re a symbol.
a/k/a brine shrimp . . . but the true name didn’t sell as well as sea monkeys.
I suspect Meta is also sending data recorded despite the devices being turned off.
Zuckerberg is such a loser. His whole Facebook thing was to rank all the ‘chicks’ at Harvard. As if.
lol…starting with “Meta in row…” it went downhill from there.
All Glasses Matter!
Ah, the Good Old Days!
When High Quality merchandise could be had for mere pennies!
People who have electronic “glasses” with cameras, that stream video back to the mother-ship ... were wearing those glasses while doing the horizontal polka ... and employees of the mother-ship got to watch.
I can’t fathom the mentality that would “own” such a device in the first place.
I went with the Surprise Package. It was an Ovaltine decoder ring.
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