Meta ends Sama contract after Kenyan workers report seeing intimate footage from Ray-Ban smart glasses users
By Ana Maria Constantin
Published on May 1, 2026.
Kenyan data annotation workers have reported seeing intimate footage from Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses users, which included people having sex, undressing, and using the toilet. The workers' job was to label the content for Meta’s AI systems to learn what the glasses see. The 1,108 workers were given six days' notice by the company, leading to a class action lawsuit, UK and Kenyan regulatory investigations, and an EFF advisory. Less than two months after the investigation was published, Meta ended its contract with Sama and issued formal redundancy notices to 1,106 employees. The case reveals that the workers who train the AI see everything, own nothing, and lose their jobs when they discuss it.
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