Source: Daring Fireball
Meta's response to Kenyan contractors accessing intimate footage from AI glasses wearers shows how companies manage liability for surveillance infrastructure: not by redesigning the tech, but by redistributing reputational and ethical cost. The solution—stricter NDAs, compartmentalization, further outsourcing chains—treats contractor exposure as a containment problem rather than a structural flaw in deploying human reviewers near footage captured by always-on devices. The pattern is becoming standard for compute-heavy AI systems: when surveillance is unavoidable, make the witnesses legally and geographically expendable.