Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses have earned a reputation for being creepy, with growing backlash over reports of users secretly recording people in public. Swedish journalists found that Meta moderators had reviewed intimate footage captured through the glasses, including people using the toilet and having sex.
Meta responded that it takes data protection seriously and that footage stays on a user’s device unless they choose to share it. Reports of the company’s plans to implement facial recognition haven’t helped either. But here’s the thing – the same glasses are also quietly changing lives in ways that are hard to argue with.
How a blind artist is using Meta glasses to run a marathon guided by strangers worldwide
Clarke Reynolds wearing Meta AI Glasses BBCClarke Reynolds, a 45-year-old blind artist from Havant known as “Mr. Dot,” is believed to be attempting a world first this
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