Not long after Meta agreed to fork up up to $18 billion over the next decade for its child-safety settlement, the tech giant faces yet another privacy lawsuit, this one over\u00a0its AI-powered Meta Glasses. A new lawsuit alleges the company turned footage captured through the smart glasses into training data for its AI systems without adequately disclosing how the data from those recordings were handled.<\/p>\n
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The complaint stems from a lawsuit originally filed in federal court in California in March, alleging that Meta marketed its AI glasses as \u201cdesigned for privacy, controlled by you,\u201d while sending recordings captured through the devices to third-party contractors who could view and label the material for AI development. Then, on August 31, an amended complaint was filed, expanding the case to include people who never bought or wore the glasses, but were recorded by them without their knowledge.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven if a bystander notices the Glasses and agrees to be recorded, he or she cannot have consented to the mass amalgamation of their data when the Glasses are in AI mode,\u201d the amended complaint read, \u201cincluding visual recordings that are collected, stored, exploited, and visually inspected by persons overseas, because Defendants have made no effort to disclose these practices to bystanders or to seek their consent.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there is a huge push to improve AI tools by every corporation, especially the largest corporations in the world,\u201d said Ryan Clarkson, founder and managing partner of Clarkson Law Firm\u2014who also serves as co-lead counsel in the litigation. \u201cAnd the way that they believe is the best way to improve their AI is to find more signal, to find more content, more recordings that they can feed into this machine, feeding the beast.\u201d<\/p>\n
Connecting the physical world<\/h2>\n
The case centers on the way Meta\u2019s hardware connects the physical world to its AI systems. The company\u2019s glasses combine cameras and microphones with the consumers\u2019 perception, allowing users to ask questions about what they see, identify objects and landmarks, translate information and capture photos and video hands-free. According to Meta\u2019s product website, a capture LED illuminates when the camera is recording and users can manage or delete photos, videos and voice interactions through the company\u2019s software.<\/p>\n
But Clarkson says the software and the hardware combine to build a \u201csurveillance economy,\u201d where big tech companies are locked in an \u201carms race.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really about power, and it\u2019s about money, and the largest technology companies are barreling ahead with that as their dual focus,\u201d he said, \u201ceven if it means totally changing the way society functions and who gets hurt as collateral damage along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n
The lawsuit alleges the privacy assurances Meta gave consumers don\u2019t tell the full story. According to the complaint, when users activate AI features, imagery and audio can be transmitted to Meta\u2019s servers for analysis and, the plaintiffs allege, ultimately used to train Meta\u2019s AI models. The suit specifically challenges Meta\u2019s representations that the glasses were designed for privacy and that users remained in control of their data.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe heard from many people who we\u2019ll call non-purchasers or non-users, or in our amended complaint we refer to them bystanders, people just navigating their way normally through life, who are being confronted with being recorded by users of these glasses, and it even resulted in this term called perv glasses,\u201d Clarkson explained.<\/p>\n
The allegations first gained traction after a February 2026 investigation by Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and G\u00f6teborgs-Posten, based in part on interviews with workers at Sama, a Kenya-based outsourcing company that performed data-annotation work for Meta. According to the reports, workers described reviewing footage captured by the Ray-Ban Meta glasses\u2014including recording containing highly intimate material. The investigation alleges the footage included people changing clothes, using bathrooms and engaging in intimate activity\u2014as well as visible financial and other personal information.<\/p>\n
The original complaint cited those reports in arguing that Meta\u2019s privacy marketing concealed the existence of a human-review pipeline. It alleged the recordings were routed to Sama workers in Kenya, and some workers saw identifiable faces despite Meta\u2019s purported anonymization measures.<\/p>\n
Meta, however, disputes the allegations.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe disagree with these allegations and will fight them,\u201d a Meta spokesperson told Fortune<\/em> in a statement. \u201cOur glasses help you use AI hands free to answer questions about the world around you. If you use Meta AI, we may review that data to help improve our products and people\u2019s experiences\u2014this works the same way as many other companies.\u201d<\/p>\nThe spokesperson also added that the company takes \u201csteps to filter this data to help remove identifying information and to protect people\u2019s privacy.\u201d<\/p>\n
The case is still in litigation, and the allegations have not been proven in court.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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