In US privacy suit over Meta AI smart glasses, amended claims filed
( August 31, 2026, 15:24 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Plaintiffs filed an amended US complaint accusing Meta Platforms and Luxottica of America of violating privacy laws through new Meta AI Glasses. The complaint says contractors in Meta’s AI training pipeline report seeing people in various intimate and sensitive situations, and Meta’s “face anonymization” doesn't work. Furthermore, workers who raised concerns were fired. “No reasonable consumer would expect that a product marketed as privacy-protective is a conduit for AI training and systemic surveillance. Nor would any reasonable consumer understand ‘designed for privacy’ or ‘controlled by you’ to mean that everything the Glasses’ AI sees and hears, including people’s most intimate moments, could be viewed by strangers overseas and used to train Meta’s AI,” plaintiffs claim. See attached file. ...
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