ODPC opens a suo moto investigation into Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses

Kenya's ODPC opened a suo moto investigation into Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses in April 2026, after a direct appeal filed 6 March 2026 raised the devices' embedded recording capabilities. The privacy exposure runs two ways: bystanders captured on camera never consented, and recorded data flows into Meta's cloud infrastructure with the cross-border questions that follow. Taken with the Worldcoin judgment, the investigation shows the ODPC extending its biometrics and surveillance attention from enrolment schemes to consumer electronics.