They Sold You "Privacy-First" Glasses. Then They Let Strangers Watch You Having Sex.

Let me ask you something. When you bought those Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, what did you think you were getting? Cool factor? Hands-free photos? AI that tells you what you're looking at? How about... intimate footage of you having sex, reviewed by underpaid workers in Kenya who had no business seeing it? Yeah. That's what Meta actually sold you. 2 Here's the deal: Meta marketed these glasses with phrases like "designed for privacy, controlled by you" and "built for your privacy." Their ads showed you could choose what to share. "You're in control of your data and content," one ad declared. Cool. Comforting. Very 2026. Except. Seven million people bought these things in 2025. And according to Swedish newspapers investigating the matter, workers at Meta's Kenya-based subcontractor were watching footage from those glasses. Nudity. Sex. People going to the toilet. One worker literally said: "We see everything - from living rooms to naked bodies." Your naked body. In your living room. Being watched by a stranger in Nairobi for $2 an hour. 3 And here's where it gets beautiful. After the investigation went public, Meta did what every tech company does when caught: they pretended it was just a small problem, a few bad actors, nothing to see here. They terminated the contract with the subcontractor, Sama. About 1,100 Kenyan workers lost their jobs. Why? Meta said Sama "didn't meet their standards." Sama said they met every standard. Every time. With zero complaints before the whistleblowing started. And the workers' organization? They say Meta fired everyone specifically because workers talked to the press.