Senators say Meta's camera glasses are 'tailor-made for invading privacy'

Senators Ron Wyden and Edward Markey wrote to Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg on October 28 to investigate what they call serious privacy and safety risks in Meta's AI smart glasses, saying the glasses have increasingly been implicated in disturbing invasions of users' and bystanders' privacy — and that Meta launched the product even after identifying risks to bystander privacy.

The letter cites reports of men secretly filming women with the glasses, nicknamed 'pervert glasses,' while harassing them and posting the recordings online, and claims that Meta's AI contractors reviewed eyewear footage of people undressing and engaging in sexual activity. The senators ask whether Meta assessed the risk of voyeurism and nonconsensual intimate capture, and whether people filmed without consent can request deletion of their biometric and other data.

They also demand answers on accidental camera activation, tampering with the recording indicator, and when imagery reaches employees, contractors, or AI training, with responses requested by Thanksgiving — arguing Meta's stated commitment to preventing intimate-image abuse rings hollow if it cannot show meaningful steps to stop its own products facilitating those harms.