 There is a point early in a marriage when spouses get comfortable and uninhibited around each other in the bedroom and even the bathroom. That’s because there is no third set of eyes in the room… unless one of them just happens to be wearing a pair of smart glasses. We recently covered the perils and pitfalls of Meta adding facial recognition software to its Ray-Ban smartglasses. Now Victor Tangermann of Futurism has uncovered a genuine horror story about private images captured by these glasses, millions of which are already in circulation. Meta, in order to refine its AI imaging, sends footage from consumers’ glasses to contractors in Kenya and other countries to label them for training. This tedious process is necessary to enable AI to learn to recognize everyday objects. At that point, almost anything recorded by Meta glasses is liable to be sent abroad for data annotation. “I saw a video, where a man puts the glasses on the bedside table and leaves the room,” one data annotator told two newspapers in Sweden. “Shortly afterwards his wife comes in and changes her clothes.” Another data annotator said: “In some videos you see someone going to the toilet, or getting undressed.” Tangermann reports that other footage included “imagery of people’s bank cards, users watching porn, or even filming entire ‘sex scenes.’” Meta customers have no recourse. Data protection lawyer Kleanthi Sardeli told the Swedish press, “Once the material has been fed into the models, the user in practice loses control over how it is used.” Of course, as the Internet of Things weaves together Ring cameras, cloud-based voice-activated AI assistants, baby monitors, and robot vacuums, we are all subject to being surreptitiously recorded at, well, inconvenient moments. But none of them have the reach into personal privacy that happens when one spouse is wearing a pair of smart glasses and the other announces that the toilet paper holder is empty. Comments are closed.
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