Meta unveiled its AI‑powered smart glasses at a September 2025 event in Menlo Park, positioning the device as a hands‑free assistant that can translate languages, recognize faces, and capture moments without pulling o…

The marketing copy promises “live translations, facial recognition, and a real‑time guide to the world around you,” effectively pitching the glasses as a smartphone replacement that stays on the wearer’s face. The hyp…

Behind the glossy launch, a subcontractor called Sama runs a data‑annotation operation in Nairobi, Kenya, where “thousands of people” label every pixel that the glasses capture. Workers draw boxes around flower pots, …

One Nairobi annotator described seeing videos of people using the restroom or changing clothes, noting that subjects are unlikely to know they are being recorded. The same source warned that if users discovered the ex…