Efter reklamen visas: Glasögon flygning v2-2 - Desktop.mp4
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 here, he could lose everything.
He is one of the people few even realise exist – a flesh-and-blood worker in the engine room of the data industry. What he has to say is explosive.
“In some videos you can see someone going to the toilet, or getting undressed. I don’t think they know, because if they knew they wouldn’t be recording.”
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