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.
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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.
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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While there are a few facial recognition search engines out there, PimEyes is perhaps the largest one that makes its technology accessible by the public.
Users can simply upload a photo to PimEyes and the service scans the web for images of the individual in the photo.
Using the information from PimEyes, I-XRAY can then identify the individual and find out personal information on them by scanning the internet including full names, phone numbers, addresses, social media profiles etc