If you happen to be interested in Meta’s popular AI-based Ray-Ban glasses, then you might want to read on further.
The company just adjusted the privacy policy on this front, which means the tech giant gets more control of users’ data in general. Which also means they have greater control over what is stored and used for training the AI systems.
All owners of the product received emails from the tech giant about a shift in the privacy policy. This includes how all AI features would turn on by default. So Meta AI can analyze users’ images and videos through the glasses when the features are in action. Similarly, it can store the users’ voice to better its products in the future. How’s that for a clear invasion of privacy? Remember, there is no option for opting out either.
Let's make things so much clearer on this front. The glasses aren’t consistently recording and storing all things around the person wearing the product. It only does that after the prompt is made by the user for ‘Hey Meta’.
The company’s privacy policy regarding voice services for all wearables claims that all voice transcripts are to be stored for nearly one year to assist with the firm’s products. If a client does not want Meta to train using their voice, they would need to delete every recording manually from the product’s companion platform.
The change in words is along the lines of Amazon’s quick policy changes impacting Echo users. Last month, we saw Amazon claim it would run Echo commands via the cloud. So that would get rid of the privacy option to gather and store voice data of all users.
So many tech giants like Meta are keen on grabbing users’ voice data because they feel it’s great for training purposes for different AI products. With a huge range of audio, Meta’s AI could do a great job at processing various accents, speech patterns, and dialects.
Now that’s great for big companies, but it’s at the cost of the user, who loses out big time on privacy. Users couldn’t understand how using the product to take clicks of speaking to loved ones means having all data transferred to Meta’s database. It would benefit Amazon and Meta to train any AI system using human data currently in use.
We have to admit that this news is not new, as Meta is known for its data hoarding practices. It already trains the AI models, such as Llama, using public posts that US users share through Instagram and Facebook.
Image: Meta
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The company just adjusted the privacy policy on this front, which means the tech giant gets more control of users’ data in general. Which also means they have greater control over what is stored and used for training the AI systems.
All owners of the product received emails from the tech giant about a shift in the privacy policy. This includes how all AI features would turn on by default. So Meta AI can analyze users’ images and videos through the glasses when the features are in action. Similarly, it can store the users’ voice to better its products in the future. How’s that for a clear invasion of privacy? Remember, there is no option for opting out either.
Let's make things so much clearer on this front. The glasses aren’t consistently recording and storing all things around the person wearing the product. It only does that after the prompt is made by the user for ‘Hey Meta’.
The company’s privacy policy regarding voice services for all wearables claims that all voice transcripts are to be stored for nearly one year to assist with the firm’s products. If a client does not want Meta to train using their voice, they would need to delete every recording manually from the product’s companion platform.
The change in words is along the lines of Amazon’s quick policy changes impacting Echo users. Last month, we saw Amazon claim it would run Echo commands via the cloud. So that would get rid of the privacy option to gather and store voice data of all users.
So many tech giants like Meta are keen on grabbing users’ voice data because they feel it’s great for training purposes for different AI products. With a huge range of audio, Meta’s AI could do a great job at processing various accents, speech patterns, and dialects.
Now that’s great for big companies, but it’s at the cost of the user, who loses out big time on privacy. Users couldn’t understand how using the product to take clicks of speaking to loved ones means having all data transferred to Meta’s database. It would benefit Amazon and Meta to train any AI system using human data currently in use.
We have to admit that this news is not new, as Meta is known for its data hoarding practices. It already trains the AI models, such as Llama, using public posts that US users share through Instagram and Facebook.
Image: Meta
Read next: Meta Publishes First Earnings Report for 2025 with 80M New Users and Strengthened Ad Business with Ambitious Forecasts for the Future
