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Meta cuts contractors who reported seeing Ray-Ban Meta users have sex

TechnologyMay 1, 2026
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Meta cuts contractors who reported seeing Ray-Ban Meta users have sex
Meta said the Kenyan workers didn't "meet our standards."
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In February, numerous workers from a company that Meta contracted to perform data annotation for Ray-Ban Meta reported viewing sensitive, embarrassing, and seemingly private footage recorded by the smart glasses. About two months later, Meta ended its contract with the firm.

According to a BBC report today, “less than two months” after a report from Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten and Kenya-based freelance journalist Naipanoi Lepapa came out featuring Sama workers complaining about watching explicit footage shot from Ray-Ban Metas, “Meta ended its contract with Sama.”

Sama is a Kenya-headquartered firm that Meta contracted to perform data annotation work, including working with video, image, and speech annotation for Meta’s AI systems for Ray-Ban Metas. Sama claims that Meta's cancellation of the contract affected 1,108 workers.

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