Two Harvard students have created a privacy nightmare, according to 404 Media. Real-time facial recognition smart glasses, which pull up names, contacts, addresses, and more about a complete stranger just by looking at them.
On top of the facial recognition software capabilities, the students’ project is even more eye-opening considering the hardware they’re using to run it: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses.
The students – AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio – say they won’t be releasing the product nor the software behind it. The project, titled I-XRAY, is meant to raise awareness about what is possible with today’s technology. In fact, it’s something that Big Tech companies like Google and Facebook have long had the power to do, but they haven’t released such capabilities due to the high potential for misuse.
How it works
Nguyen and Ardayfio were able to create I-XRAY, thanks, in part, to Meta’s smart glasses and PimEyes’ facial recognition software.
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