Notice at the moment of capture
Meta sold 7 million pairs and more worldwide last year through its Ray-Ban and Oakley partnerships. The device carries small cameras, microphones and an assistant; it can describe surroundings and capture audio and video. A small light blinks in the frame while the camera is active, but the lens is nearly undetectable. The TivoliVredenburg venue in Utrecht and several cruise ships have banned it on their own premises.[1]
That light answers exactly one question: is something being filmed right now. Privacy lawyer Charlotte Meindersma told NOS that everything captured reaches Meta even when the user never shares it on Instagram or Facebook. Evelyn Austin of Bits of Freedom said Swedish journalists found that part of the footage was forwarded to one of Meta's content-moderation facilities in Kenya, and that what arrived there included people having sex, people on the toilet and bank cards. Meta said it has ended the partnership with the Kenyan firm that reviewed the material.[1]
Which document would close the gap
The picture is not evenly weighted at this point. On one side sit confirmed procedures: the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens has logged complaints from three people filmed without consent whose images were later published; Britain's regulator opened an investigation after learning that Meta employees could view sensitive content recorded with the glasses; the European Data Protection Board is expected to open an inquiry by the end of the summer. On the other, the suits filed in the United States are at the allegation stage, and no ruling yet tests the claim that the company broke its promise of built-in privacy safeguards.[1]
Bits of Freedom wants a ban. A ban is a proposed remedy; answering which data is kept and for how long requires a different document. What would close that gap can be named: a retention period, the criterion by which content is routed to human review, which company in which country performs that review, and where a bystander sends a deletion request. Publication of the scope of the European Data Protection Board's inquiry would be the first concrete indication of which of these is actually being asked.[1]