Earlier this year, Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten published a joint investigation that found contract workers in Kenya were being made to review sensitive and personal footage captured by Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses, including video of people using the bathroom, getting dressed, and having sex. In April, Meta reduced those workers’ exposure to disturbing imagery—not by offering them new protections or by installing new safety features to reduce the amount of inappropriate material being filmed, but by ending its contract with the company those contractors worked for. The Guardian was first to report that more than 1,000 of those workers, who were employed by a Kenyan company called Sama, were laid off as a result of Meta severing ties . So nothing got fixed, but at least Meta won’t have to hear about it now. If you’ll recall, the contractors working for Sama were primarily working as data annotators.…