Two Harvard students have created an eerie demo of how smart glasses can use facial recognition tech to instantly dox people’s identities, phone numbers, and addresses. The most unsettling part is the demo uses current, widely available technology like the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and public databases.
AnhPhu Nguyen, one of the two students, posted a video showcasing the tech in action that was then picked up by 404 Media. Dubbed I-XRAY, the tech works by using the Meta smart glasses’ ability to livestream video to Instagram. A computer program then monitors that stream and uses AI to identify faces. Those photos are then fed into public databases to find names, addresses, phone numbers, and even relatives. That information is then fed back through a phone app.
In the demo, you can see Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio, the other student behind the project, use the glasses to identify several classmates, their addresses, and names of relatives in real time. Perhaps more chilling, Nguyen and Ardayfio are also shown chatting up complete strangers on public transit, pretending as if they know them based on information gleaned from the tech...
This creepiness is one reason why I'm sticking with the XReal Air 1. No cameras.
If AR glasses with cameras become popular, we're going to have to rethink how we design public restrooms.
They're not AR though. They have cameras and can stream to a social media. They then have a computer analyze the videos and send the information on their phones.
I know, but almost all AR offerings include cameras that are capable of the same thing.
The point is, this isn't limited to AR and has nothing to do with AR.
This could be done yesterday by having a phone in your shirt pocket with the camera sticking out.
It's best to assume you are always being video recorded, and delete any account/never sign up for social media, etc that demands your actual information.
This is 2000s talk that somehow, people forgot about.
Sure, but when smartglasses become ubiquitous, it's much easier for bad actors to blend in and reduces the "barriers to entry". Furthermore, it makes it much easier for bad corporate actors to abuse this functionality.
You're both right!!!!