Two Harvard students demonstrated how Meta smart glasses can be utilized to access an individual’s private information.
“AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio, who are engineering students at the Ivy League school, posted a chilling demonstration of what their program, dubbed I-Xray, can do,” the New York Post reports.
“Are we ready for a world where our data is exposed at a glance?” Nguyen asked.
“We built glasses that let you identify anybody on the street,” Nguyen said.
“The information our tool collects from just a photo of your face is staggering,” he added.
“To use it, you just put the glasses on then as you walk by people the glasses will detect when somebody’s face is in frame. This photo is used to analyze them and after a few seconds their personal information pops up on your phone,” he continued.
“So here’s how it works. We stream the video from the glasses straight to Instagram and have a computer program monitor the stream. 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