A critical essay on how major tech companies systematically collect user data for AI training through devices like smart glasses, operating systems, and online services, often with vague consent buried in terms of service agreements. The author argues this is an inherent feature of modern AI development, not a bug, and that users should accept they have no privacy from devices they don't control.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation warns against purchasing and using Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses due to serious privacy concerns including automatic cloud upload of footage to Meta servers for AI training (including human review), invisible recording design that makes consent difficult, and Meta's disclosed interest in adding facial recognition capabilities.