Meta bricked the cameras on thousands of its AI glasses

On Monday, Meta’s CTO, Andrew Bosworth, said in an Instagram ask-me-anything story post that the glasses are “the most privacy-forward camera” for consumers.

The cameras that spy on people having sex[1]?

By saying, “thousands”, it implies something manual perhaps. I can’t imagine how much telemetry they have for that.


  1. Meta Fires Contractors Who Exposed Ray-Ban Glasses Privacy Scandal ↩︎

I think it’s more about people having sex while wearing them. That article seems to be related to:

In February 2026, Sama employees—tasked with annotating Ray-Ban Meta videos and images to improve AI—began speaking to Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten, plus Kenyan journalist Naipanoi Lepapa about the disturbing content crossing their screens. An anonymous worker told reporters they were expected to process such footage regardless of content.