'Meta's smart glasses have increasingly been implicated in disturbing invasions of privacy.'

Karissa Bell for Engadget

US Senators Ron Wyden (D-Or) and and Edward Markey (D-Ma) are investigating "serious privacy and safety risks" around Meta's AI smart glasses. "Meta's smart glasses have increasingly been implicated in disturbing invasions of users' and bystanders' privacy," the pair wrote in a letter to Mark Zuckerberg , adding that Meta launched the product even after identifying risks to bystander privacy.

The senators highlighted multiple incidents of Meta's glasses being used in "disturbing" invasions of privacy. It cited both 404 Media and BBC articles about men secretly filming women with Meta's "pervert glasses" while harassing them, then posting the recordings to social media.…