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Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/workers-report-watching-ray-ban-meta-shot-footage-of-people-using-the-bathroom/
88•randycupertino•2h ago

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ChrisArchitect•1h ago
[dupe] Discussion on source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47225130
baal80spam•1h ago
"Dumb fucks". Honestly... Volenti non fit iniuria.
ryandrake•1h ago
Privacy-wise, isn't this completely on-brand and expected from Meta? Is anyone surprised by these kinds of revelations?
moab•1h ago
No. Read the book "Careless People". Meta leadership tried to downplay it by saying the stories are exaggerated. It seems doubtful to me.
kjsingh•27m ago
I have read it and was enough to delete the insta account for good. Still have the fb unfortunately use it to handle some Non profit pages
visheshdembla•1h ago
Water is wet. Grass is green.
JohnMakin•1h ago
It's cheaper for them to settle in a lawsuit than what they are gaining by doing this. If it wasn't, they wouldn't. The laws are broken.
sdoering•28m ago
As is already revealed with Meta leadership knowing that they make 7billion a year on scam ads. They even calculated that global regulations and fines might cost them 1 billion.

So fines and regulations are priced in as a fraction of the net earnings.

https://mashable.com/article/meta-7-billion-dollars-scam-ads

autoexec•1h ago
"using the bathroom" will be the least of what they're watching people do. Anyone wearing these glasses (or similar) should know that all of the audio/video picked up by the glasses will be watched and analyzed by others, likely by AI as well. Just like the entire point of facebook is to spy on people and profit from that data, the entire point of these devices is to spy on people in ways that the facebook app doesn't/can't and profit from that data.
simmerup•58m ago
And now realise the same is true for your robot vacuum, car camera, doorbell camera, etc etc

We consumers have no protection against big tech

SoftTalker•48m ago
Don't use it.
Semaphor•33m ago
Sure you do. All of those are available in local versions without Internet.

Youjust need to care enough, be able to afford them (while my vacuum has no camera, it requires the cloud, but it was significantly cheaper than a local or hackable one), and have the ability to self host something like home assistant.

pseudocomposer•33m ago
We definitely don’t have any hard boundaries baked into this tech preventing big tech from (ab)using our data this way. But are there specific companies you think are doing this? I think with Meta products, it’s been rather obvious for a long time. But I’ve had a Nest doorbell camera and thermostats for years, and first iRobot and now Roborock vacuums, and they don’t really seem so suspect.
boomskats•31m ago
Speak for yourself, I rooted my vacuum the day I bought it
staplers•31m ago
Sadly, "using the bathroom" will cause a more immediate visceral reaction for most people than "maliciously manipulating your entire life via ad networks and media".
dylan604•1m ago
Do we really care what it is that will cause the visceral reaction? If I said it might reveal ways/means or private IP or any of a million other examples, few would really care as not everyone is involved in that. However, everyone goes to the bathroom.
nervysnail•54m ago
Anyone wearing these glasses in public should be punched in the face. Especially public transport.
philipallstar•35m ago
Why especially public transport?
irishcoffee•21m ago
Well, when you physically assault someone on public transport, at least there's a lot of witnesses present who can testify against you?
kotaKat•26m ago
“Hey Meta” gets “OK Glassed”.
paxys•32m ago
How many times will the same report be regurgitated and reposted? There is nothing added here that the original source didn't cover already (https://www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-smart-glasses-and-data-...). Read that instead of the derivative blogspam.
winddude•5m ago
Yea, but not a bad reminder to ridicule people who wear them, and if possible destroy on site.
paxys•27m ago
Meta does Meta things (again). People surprised (again).
munk-a•12m ago
Won't this cause significant legal issues in two party consent states and have a huge potential to run afoul of revenge porn laws?
thegrim33•7m ago
Source: Someone who says that someone said that someone anonymous said. (Literally)

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