Meta's AI Smart Glasses: Privacy Concerns and Hidden Workforce Processing Intimate User Data
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Summary
Meta's AI smart glasses, marketed as privacy-focused assistants that can compete with smartphones, actually involve a hidden workforce that processes intimate user data including bank details, sexual content, and recordings of unaware people. Workers express discomfort about peering into the most private aspects of people's lives while Meta promotes the glasses as giving users control over their privacy.
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Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded.
The glasses are marketed as an all-in-one assistant that helps the wearer excel at work, capture beautiful sunsets, act as a travel guide and translate foreign languages in real time.
So powerful that they are meant to compete with smartphones, while the user remains in control of their privacy.
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