Senators Ron Wyden and Edward Markey wrote to Mark Zuckerberg last week about what they call "serious privacy and safety risks" in Meta's AI glasses, Bloomberg reported on October 29. "Meta's smart glasses have increasingly been implicated in disturbing invasions of users' and bystanders' privacy," they wrote. Their letter points to 404 Media and BBC reports of men secretly filming women with the glasses, and to a lawsuit claiming Meta's AI contractors reviewed footage of people undressing.
They want Meta to explain how it stops the camera switching on by accident and what it's doing about people tampering with the recording light. They also asked whether the glasses blur faces and license plates in some AI features, the way Meta does on Facebook and Instagram, when employees or contractors can see the footage, and when it's used to train AI models. Earlier in October, California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have banned using wearables to secretly record people in private areas of businesses. Meta has until Thanksgiving, November 26, to answer.