NAIROBI, April 1 -- Kenya is investigating Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses over accusations of storing users' data by recording their daily lives without their knowledge, digital rights group The Oversight Lab said Tuesday.

It follows an investigation by Swedish media outlets Svenska Dagbladet and Goteborgs-Posten in February that alleged images being collected around the world by the glasses - some showing intimate or violent scenes, or confidential data such as bank account numbers - were ending up in Nairobi, where Kenyan employees of a subcontracted company were required to review them, notably to train the artificial intelligence (AI) that powers the devices.

The Oversight Lab asked on March 6 the Office of the Data Protection Commissio...