The workers behind Meta’s smart glasses can see everything
The advertisement is everywhere. The ice hockey player Peter Forsberg is trying on a pair of black glasses. In the viral clip he talks to the glasses, asking who is Sweden’s greatest hockey player of all time.They are not just any glasses.They are Facebook owner Meta’s new AI glasses.The glasses are marketed as an all-in-one assistant that helps the wearer excel at work, capture beautiful sunsets, act as a travel guide and translate foreign languages in real time.So powerful that they are meant to compete with smartphones, while the user remains in control of their privacy.Reality would prove to be different.It is stuffy at the top of the hotel in Nairobi, Kenya. The grey sky presses the heat against the windows. The man in front of us is nervous. If his employer finds out that he is…
