Wyden and Markey press Meta on smart glasses privacy risks

Sens. Ron Wyden and Edward Markey sent Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg a letter on Oct. 29 seeking answers about privacy and safety risks posed by the company’s smart glasses, Gizmodo reports. The senators asked whether Meta conducted human rights due diligence and safety testing before releasing the glasses, how it assessed privacy risks and what safeguards are in place.

The inquiry follows allegations about how people have used the glasses. Engadget reports that the senators cited 404 Media and BBC articles about men secretly filming women while harassing them, then posting the recordings online. “Meta’s smart glasses have increasingly been implicated in disturbing invasions of users’ and bystanders’ privacy,” the senators wrote, as quoted by Gizmodo.