Two students at Harvard University have hooked Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses up to a facial recognition system that instantly identifies strangers in public, finds their personal information and can be used to approach them and gain their trust. They call it I-XRAY and have demonstrated its concerning power to get phone numbers, addresses and even social security numbers in live tests.
“We stream the video from the glasses straight to Instagram and have a computer program monitor the stream,” AnhPhu Nguyen said in a demo video on X. “We use AI to detect when we’re looking at someone’s face, then we scour the internet to find more pictures of that person. Finally, we use data sources like online articles and voter registration databases to figure out their name, phone number, home address and relatives’ names.”
Nguyen and fellow Harvard student Caine Ardayfio then stream that information to an app on their phones.
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