Harvard students have built a pair of what big tech companies have never dared because of the enormous risks and risks: smart glasses with facial recognition technology that can automatically scan and recognize someone’s face. To do this, they used Ray-Ban Meta to edit them and collect all kinds of information about the network, including his address, telephone number or the number of his family members, in seconds.
AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio are the creators of this invention, which gave a public demonstration of how it works in the social network, you get information about his name and his interests. Later, he does the same with a randomly selected person who, thanks to the data revealed by his glasses, starts a conversation about what he did.
The technology, called I-XRAY, takes advantage of Meta Glasses’ Instagram live feature. Then, a computer program monitors the broadcast to recognize faces through artificial intelligence. Photographs are uploaded to a public database to find names, addresses and telephone numbers of identified individuals. It is also possible to find family or close people. That information is sent through the phone app.
A model of how I-XRAY works
The two young men assured that they developed it only for the purpose of creating awareness about the dangers of this technology and that they do not plan to commercialize their creation. “It’s a privacy nightmare,” AnhPhu Nguyen explained in an interview with Joseph Cox for the portal. 404 media. In fact, they also assured that they do not plan to share the code of the program they created to prevent anyone from taking advantage to carry out illegal activities.
It’s crazy.
The two researchers added facial recognition to Meta’s glasses to identify random people on the street and reveal personal data such as their name, phone number or where they live. A nightmare for privacy. pic.twitter.com/Vi1ajYzCp9
— Carles Planas Bou (@carlesplanasbou) October 2, 2024
His point is that what is achieved is not the result of a dystopian future, but is already here and within the “reach” of millions of people because it is a device for sale. Explained in their official statement.
The Ray-Ban Meta has an LED light that activates when the wearer starts recording a video or goes live on Instagram, aiming to alert others that it’s in the works. However, this light shines dimly and is almost invisible during the day, so people are unaware that they are being recorded.
Meta is aware of the problem and hence he asks within himself Method of use Ray-Ban Meta owners should be careful and respect other people’s privacy when they don’t want to be recorded, inviting them to make a gesture or voice command to activate the recording and alert others.
