Walk your trading floor or your ops bullpen this week and look at people’s faces. If anyone is wearing camera-equipped glasses at a workstation — and they increasingly look exactly like ordinary Ray-Bans — you may have a problem your cybersecurity policy was never written to catch.
Meta’s camera-equipped glasses — the Ray-Ban Wayfarer line, the newer Ray-Ban Display, and the Oakley Meta models — have crossed from novelty into mainstream. They look like ordinary eyewear. They record photo, video, and audio. And they connect to a consumer cloud environment entirely outside your firm’s contractual control. Reporting this year established that content routed through the glasses’ AI features can end up in front of human reviewers overseas, and Meta’s voice-recording retention terms have changed repeatedly and are not something you get to negotiate.
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