Meta has got itself in some hot water. Once again, there's a new class action lawsuit.

Essentially, people are suing it because of its AI-powered smart glasses, the meta raybans.

You know, I mean, we literally just had a Super Bowl commercial about these.

And essentially, what's been happening is that there are human contractors overseas

that review the footage, apparently, and the class action lawsuit is that most users wearing these don't know

that there's other people overseas reviewing the video especially because it's been kind of

marketed as you know you have like content security and there's been a whole bunch of you know

sensitive footage right including people going to the bathroom or having sex or appearing nude

there's all sorts of you know there's all sorts of, you know,

there's all sorts of things that have apparently been reviewed by people over in Kenya.

There's kind of an investigative company over in Sweden, a newspaper called Spenska de Blaget,

who basically worked with some of the Kenyan-based subcontractors that were hired by meta and asked them about, you know, what types of video clips they were reviewing that came from these Meta-ray bands. So anyways, today on the podcast, we're getting into this huge controversy for meta, what this means for the future, who else is in this space, what we can expect to see in the future. Before we get into that, I wanted to

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while there's not footage being recorded now. So I think just a lot of trust has been lost in the

device for, you know, a lot of different things. So when the first, when the controversy first kind of

came out, meta said like, look, we have tools in place that blur the faces of people in this

quote unquote reviewed footage to

kind of protect their privacy. But a bunch of sources that were actually working on this said

that all those types of like face blurring safeguards don't actually always work. So like,

yeah, sometimes the face is blurred, but sometimes it's not. And because of this, the UK's Information Commission

Office actually started looking into all of this. And I think now this is kind of escalated to the

US. There's a newly filed federal lawsuit, which is accusing meta of misleading consumers

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