A man left his Ray-Ban Meta glasses recording in a bedroom. His wife walked in and undressed. A worker in Nairobi watched the clip.
That sentence is not a breach dump. It is a product description.
In early 2026, Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten, with reporting later picked up by the BBC, interviewed data annotators at Sama, a Meta subcontractor in Kenya. Their job was to label video and images from Ray-Ban Meta glasses so Meta AI could "see." One worker’s line: "We see everything. From living rooms to naked bodies."
Workers described toilet visits, sex, pornography on a TV, and that bedroom. Meta has said humans sometimes review content people share with Meta AI, with consent buried in the terms. Sources told the Swedish papers that face-blurring sometimes failed.
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office called the claims "concerning." Kenya’s data protection office opened an investigation. A U.S. class action followed. Then Meta canceled the Sama contract. Sama said 1,108 Kenyan workers would lose the work. Meta said Sama did not meet its standards. A Kenyan tech-workers organizer told the BBC the standard in question was secrecy.
The part owners skipped
The little LED on the frame tells the room you are recording. Nothing on the frame tells you a contractor is in the queue.
On April 29, 2025, Meta updated the U.S. Ray-Ban Meta privacy policy. The Verge reported the new line: turning off voice-recording storage was no longer an option. You can still delete recordings in settings. You cannot stop them from being stored in the first place. Voice data used to improve products, including training Meta AI, can sit for up to a year.
If you own a pair, the five-minute version lives in the Meta AI app, behind the glasses icon:
- Delete the voice activity log. There is no auto-delete you can trust.
- Turn off Cloud media so captures stay on the phone unless you share them.
- If you can live without it, disable "Hey Meta." That is the command that fires the camera into the cloud.
- Never say "what am I looking at" in a private space. That query is the one that puts an image in a human review queue.
Do those even if you think you are careful. The bedroom clip happened because the glasses were left on a table, not because someone was trying to be a villain.
What this has to do with data brokers
Wearables are a new pipe. Brokers are the old one. Both end in a file about you that you did not mean to create.
A contractor in Nairobi is a brutal way to learn that "the cloud" is a person. Spokeo is a boring way to learn the same lesson about your address. The boring one is still how most stalking, spam, and skip tracing starts.
We cannot unsell a pair of glasses. We can send the legal deletions to the companies that already packaged your name, your house, and your relatives.
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