Meta's Smart Glasses Used to Identify People and Access Their Private Information

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Two Harvard University students have discovered that Meta's smart glasses may be utilized to identify a person and gain access to their private information, according to Daily Mail.

Facebook partnered with sunglasses manufacturer Ray-Ban, and developed Ray-Ban Stories. The smart glasses are loaded up with a dual integrated 5-megapixel camera, discreet open-ear speakers, and a 3 microphone array. Users may secretly capture video and photos on the run and gain control over a few apps hands-free.

When you push a button on the Meta Ray Ban 2, users may film up to 3 minutes of live video, which may also be streamed to Instagram.

Two Harvard University students recently created a program for Ray-Ban Stories that may be utilized to instantly identify people and gain accessibility to their private information, which includes home addresses, according to New York Post. 

Caine Ardayfio and AnhPhu Nguyen, engineering students, posted a bone-chilling demonstration of what the program, called I-Xray, is able to do.

According to Nguyen, some man might simply find some woman's home address on a train and follow her home. Nguyen adds, ‘Are we prepared for a world in which our personal details are exposed at a glance?’

In a document that outlined the technology, the engineering students explained that the purpose of building the tool isn’t for misuse, and they aren’t releasing it. 'Our goal is to show the present abilities' of "public databases, large language models, face search engines, and smart glasses.” They add that they are raising awareness that taking somebody's home address and additional private information from only their face is possible today.

Glasses allowed to film public is dangerous creation, according to security experts

The I-Xray plan operates by starting live-streaming on the glasses. Then, the footage from the live stream is uploaded to a facial recognition tool called PimEyes that uses AI to match a recorded face to any image that is publicly available online.

Then, I-Xray prompts another artificial intelligence tool that will scour public databases in order to retrieve private information about the person in the image, which includes their address, name, telephone number and even details about family members.

Video courtesy: Harvard Students Turn Smart Glasses Into Security Nightmare by Science Of Winning

In a video posted on X, Nguyen adds that "It is all fed back to an app” that we “wrote on our phone."

I-Xray is one-of-a-kind because it runs completely automatically, rapidly allowing a user to find details about individuals they encounter.

ESET security advisor, Jake Moore, said glasses that are allowed to film individuals is a “dangerous development.”

According to Moore, we’re seeing technology that is advancing into areas that are “just not required.” He adds that when they’re adapted to recognize people it’ll become a frightening tool that easily could be misused.

According to a Meta spokesperson: ‘Ray-Ban Meta glasses don’t contain facial recognition technology.’

Video courtesy: Mark Zuckerberg announced RayBan Meta Smart Glasses by Bollywoodfever

View this video of Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook presenting Meta's smart glasses as having the ability to play music, receive calls, snap photographs and perform live-streaming on Instagram, provided by The Prisoner on Brighteon.com.

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