This involves three actors – Jio, Google and Meta – and you.
Google whose ai confirmed this story. And Meta or Facebook who the story pertains to. And you as the beneficiary of the cheap data service that was funded or rather subsidised by these two. They invest for data, not for dividend.
There is no free lunch. And there is nothing free. There is always a hidden agenda. When our neighbours house gets burgled, most don’t think it will happen to them. Or could. Somehow bad news happens to others. Till it involves you and your loved ones.
If the following is not criminal breach of trust, then what is. Are you going to let them let away with a civil case and a fine. A tap on their much tempered knuckles. And move on to the next scam.
Last week, a joint investigation by Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten revealed a chilling reality behind the latest must-have tech accessory. Ai glasses.
While the marketing for Ray-Ban AI glasses shows hikers, concert-goers, and “main characters,” the raw data tells a different story.
The Reality in back offices hired by BigTech – employees of contractors at a company called Sama in Kenya were found to arrive at their desks to be greeted by a stream of footage captured by these glasses. In color video.
Because users often leave them on charging docks or bedside tables, workers are effectively “placed” inside private homes. Probably looking at labelling private moments of the live performers on their screen. And potentially with no cybersecurity safeguards and naughty young operators taking photos of their screens.
The investigation found:
• Privacy Failures: Workers reported viewing people undressing, using bathrooms, and capturing sensitive documents because “anonymization” AI regularly fails in low light.
• Human Labeling: To make AI “smarter,” humans must manually draw boxes around body parts and objects in your most private moments.
• The Scale: 7 million pairs were sold in 2025. Production is set to double to 20 million by the end of this year.
The “Terms of Service” Trap. We’ve seen this script before.
• 2018: Cambridge Analytica and 87 million profiles. It changed electoral outcomes.
• 2021: Internal research on Instagram’s impact on teen mental health.
• 2024: Senate hearings on child exploitation.
• 2026: Contractors in Nairobi watching you sleep.
Apple was doing the same. Ages ago.
Each era ends with the same corporate boilerplate: “We take privacy seriously.” Yet, the internal plumbing that produces these only continues to scale.
Historically, surveillance required force. Today, it only requires: the enticement of a free service, a product cool enough to wear, Terms of Service complicated enough to ignore.
We are trading the sanctity of our homes and the privacy of our loved ones for the convenience of an AI assistant. Is the trade-off worth it?
The munition for colonisation is now data. Do we want to be colonised. Like Venezuela.