A disturbing report from tech-onto-metas-smart-glasses-to-instantly-dox-strangers/” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:404 Media;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas” class=”link “> has shed light on some ways it could be used to violate people's privacy. Two Harvard students used facial recognition technology and a large language model to discover a subject's name, occupation, and other details. Its setup (called I-XRAY) can use that information to gather other data about the person, including their address, phone number, family member details, and partial Social Security numbers from a variety of sources on the web. All of this is said to happen automatically.
While this would be possible with a variety of cameras, AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio opted to use Meta's smart glasses since they “seem almost indistinguishable from regular glasses” and have a built-in camera. A demonstration video shows students using the glasses to quickly find information about people they meet in public. Nguyen and Ardayfio address people who appear to be strangers by name, talk about their work and mention a place where they may have met in the past, based on information obtained through the facial recognition setup.
In the video, it is explained that students transmit videos from the glasses to instagram. The transmission is monitored by a computer program. Once the ai detects someone's face, its I-XRAY system pulls more photos of that person from the web along with public information about them. The program then sends those details to a mobile app that Nguyen and Ardayfio created. This process may only take a couple of minutes to complete.
The students said 404 Media who developed I-XRAY to make people aware of what is possible with this technology and will not publish the code they used. Nguyen said that while some of the people they showed the technology to suggested they could use it to network or prank their friends, others pointed out some serious security issues. “Some guys might find a girl's address on the train and follow her home,” Nguyen said.
in a That explains some of the technology behind their system, Nguyen and Ardayfio provide resources detailing how to remove your information from the services they used for I-XRAY. Those concerned about their privacy may also consider using personal information deletion services such as DeleteMe or Incogni.
This type of technology is not inherently new. 404 Media notes that Meta and Google have had the ability to apply facial recognition to a camera feed for years, but did not make it public. But the possibility of using it in off-the-shelf smart glasses that seem relatively innocuous (except for a light that activates when the camera is recording) may be cause for concern.
When asked for comment, Meta referred Engadget to this section of its terms of service regarding facebook View, a companion app for smart glasses:
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