A proposed class action now counts more than 70 plaintiffs who bought or wore Meta’s frames, or merely appear in footage they recorded. The claim is that intimate and sensitive images reached overseas workers paid to review and label photos and video.

The proposed class action, amended in late August, claims workers in Kenya reviewed footage showing users and their families undressing, using the bathroom, having sex and typing passwords. One California user, identified in the filing as PL18, says footage of family members bathing appeared in his gallery after the glasses sat on a bathroom counter.

Filed in a Northern California federal court, the 230-page complaint alleges fraud, false advertising and breaches of several states’ consumer protection laws. Lawyer Tina Wolfson of Ahdoot & Wolfson told the Los Angeles Times the case centers on surveillance without consent and the exploitation of people’s image and likeness.

She said buyers did not know that activating the AI assistant sent video off to train Meta’s models.

Meta disputes the claims and points to built-in protections, including the light that signals when the camera is recording. The company markets the glasses with celebrity campaigns and sells them as a hands-free way to take calls, capture video and talk to an AI assistant.

The filing is the second privacy suit to hit the frames this month, after a separate class action over face matching technology Meta never shipped.

Source: Los Angeles Times