‘Feeding the beast’: Meta faces allegations of using its ‘perv glasses’ to train AI in new lawsuit

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 its 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.

The complaint stems from a lawsuit originally filed in federal court in California in March, alleging that Meta marketed its AI glasses as “designed for privacy, controlled by you,” 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.

“Even 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...