Meta is facing a new lawsuit over its AI smart glasses due to their lack of privacy. This is after Swedish newspapers conducted an investigation into the matter. The newspapers found that workers at a Kenya-based subcontractor have been reviewing footage from the smart glasses. This footage contains sensitive footage that includes nudity, people having sex, and people using the restroom.
Meta gets sued over smart glasses
Meta has been sued over privacy concerns regarding their AI smart glasses. A new investigation led by Swedish newspapers found that workers at a Kenya-based subcontractor were reviewing footage from customers’ glasses. This included sensitive content like nudity, sex, and people using the toilet. Meta previously claimed that it was blurring faces in images. However, sources have disputed the claim that the faces were being blurred consistently.
Following this development, Meta is now facing a lawsuit in the United States, as well. In the lawsuit, Gina Bartone of New Jersey and Mateo Canu of California, represented by the public interest-focused Clarkson Law Firm, claim that Meta used false advertising.
Meta advertised the product saying it was “designed for privacy, controlled by you,” but that is allegedly not the case. The lawsuit claims that Meta and its glasses manufacturing partner Luxottica have violated consumer protection laws.
Over seven million people bought Meta’s smart glasses in 2025, which highlights the scale of the problem at hand. The footage from the glasses is fed into a data pipeline for review, a feature that users cannot opt out of. Meta previously claimed that it uses contractors to review the information from its devices to improve the overall user experience.
Meta made no comments on the litigation, but spokesperson Christopher Sgro provided a general statement about the whole issue. “When people share content with Meta AI, we sometimes use contractors to review this data for the purpose of improving people’s experience, as many other companies do. We take steps to filter this data to protect people’s privacy and to help prevent identifying information from being reviewed,” Sgro said (via TechCrunch).
