Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.) wrote to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Oct. 28, 2026, asking about what they call "serious privacy and safety risks" in Meta's AI glasses. This is based on the text of the letter, a copy of which 404 Media published. No reply from Meta has been reported.

What the letter is about

The senators focus on people being recorded in private situations, that footage being shared without their consent, and Meta using it to train AI. They say contractors working on Meta AI have reportedly reviewed glasses footage of people undressing, using the bathroom and having sex.

They also say, in the letter, that Meta's own disclosures confirm images processed by its visual AI features may be kept and used for training, including with human reviewers. Meta recently let wearers stop retention of visual data for AI training, the letter notes, but people captured without consent have no similar control.

What the senators ask Meta for

They want answers and documents by Nov. 25, 2026:

  • Risk assessments: the 2021 human-rights analysis, which they say flagged bystander privacy risks before launch, plus every later human-rights, privacy and safety assessment.
  • Due diligence: whether Meta assessed voyeurism and nonconsensual intimate imagery across capture, storage, transmission, staff and contractor access, AI training and distribution, and what residual risk it accepted.
  • Recording indicator: testing of accidental camera activation, indicator tampering, camera AI interactions that do not trigger the indicator, and whether it is visible in bright light, with interference, or to low-vision and blind bystanders.
  • Safeguards: what protections exist in the glasses comparable to the automatic face and license-plate blurring Meta applies in some visual AI interactions, and its tools against intimate-image abuse on Facebook and Instagram.
  • Staff, contractors and training: when employees or contractors can see imagery or it feeds AI training, the access limits and filtering, which contractors and countries are involved, and contract terms.
  • Scope and design: whether Meta uses all eligible imagery or a subset, and whether women's-safety and image-abuse teams helped design the product.
  • Deletion and redress: whether wearers and people they capture can ask to delete biometric and other data, and what other remedy exists for people whose intimate imagery was captured and then disclosed or used for training.

Why they wrote

The letter cites reports of men secretly filming women with the glasses, soliciting sexual services and posting the footage to Instagram, and of women covertly filmed, one of whom had her phone number posted. It also cites a lawsuit with more than 70 plaintiffs against Meta.

We have not verified those accounts. The related owner complaints we covered are in Ray-Ban Meta owners report voice recordings saved without 'Hey Meta'.

What this means for you

Meta's privacy page says a Capture LED blinks when content is being captured for the gallery. It says that if the glasses detect the light was covered, tampered with or destroyed, they disable the camera.

The page's visible text does not describe AI processing of photos or video, human review or training use; its FAQ has collapsed items on who can see photos and on Meta AI queries that we could not read. Those are the questions the senators are asking.

If you wear them around other people, the Capture LED is the only bystander signal on Meta's page that works without the wearer's action; the page also asks wearers to stop recording if someone objects and to power off in places like locker rooms.

For a model without a camera, see Ray-Ban Meta Audio glasses. We found nothing in the sources we read that tells people captured by someone else's glasses how to keep their footage out of AI training.

What is confirmed and what is not

  • Confirmed by the letter's text: the senators sent it on Oct. 28, 2026, and asked the questions above, with answers requested by Nov. 25.
  • Not reported: any response from Meta, or what it will say.
  • Not findings: the contractor review, the harassment accounts and the lawsuit are the senators' citations of reports and a legal complaint. The letter is a request for information, not a finding that Meta broke any rule.

Related

More wearables coverage is in Audio & Wearables. For another privacy question about cameras in the home, see how to lock down a security camera or webcam.