{"id":425832,"date":"2026-04-30T21:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/425832\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T21:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:19:13","slug":"dispute-over-fate-of-kenyan-workers-who-saw-meta-ai-glasses-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/425832\/","title":{"rendered":"Dispute over fate of Kenyan workers who saw Meta AI glasses films"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sama, a US headquartered outsourcing business, which began as a non-profit organisation with the aim of increasing employment through the provision of tech jobs, is now an “ethical” B-corp.<\/p>\n

But this is not the first time a contract with Meta has soured. <\/p>\n

An earlier deal to moderate Facebook posts attracted criticism<\/a>, alongside legal action by former employees – some of whom described being exposed to graphic, traumatising content.<\/p>\n

Sama later said it regretted taking the work.<\/p>\n

Naftali Wambalo of the Africa Tech Workers Movement, who is a petitioner in the continuing legal action around that case, told the BBC he had also spoken with workers involved in the smart glasses contract. <\/p>\n

Wambalo believed the reason for Meta’s ending the work was that it didn’t want workers speaking out about human workers sometimes reviewing content captured by the smart glasses.<\/p>\n

“What I think are the standards they are talking about here are standards of secrecy,” he told BBC News.<\/p>\n

The BBC has asked Meta to respond to this point. <\/p>\n

The tech giant has previously said that users were made aware of the possibility of human review in the its terms of service.<\/p>\n

Mercy Mutemi a lawyer representing the petitioners, who is also executive director of campaign group the Oversight Lab, said Meta’s statement should be a warning to the Kenyan government.<\/p>\n

“We’ve been told that this is our entry route into the AI ecosystem,” she told the BBC. “This is a very flimsy foundation to build your entire industry on.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sama, a US headquartered outsourcing business, which began as a non-profit organisation with the aim of increasing employment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-425832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}