A pair of Harvard students have built what big tech companies have never dared to do because of the enormous risks and dangers involved: smart glasses with facial recognition technology that automatically examine someone’s face and identify them. To do this, they have used modifying the Ray-Ban Metaand can, in seconds, extract all kinds of information about the subject of the network, including his address, telephone number or the number of members of his family.
AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio are the creators of this invention, who gave a public demonstration of how it worked on the social network Next, you get his name and information about his hobbies. Later, he does the same with a man chosen at random, with whom he begins a conversation about a job he had done thanks to the data revealed by his glasses.
The technology, called I-XRAY, takes advantage of the live streaming feature on Instagram of Meta’s glasses. Then, a computer program monitors said transmission to identify faces through artificial intelligence. The photographs are uploaded to a public database to find the names, addresses and telephone numbers of the identified people. It is even possible to find family or close people. That information is then sent through a phone app.
A sample of how I-XRAY works
Both young people have assured that they do not plan to commercialize their creation, since they had only developed it with the purpose of raising awareness about the risks of this technology. “It is a nightmare for privacy,” explained AnhPhu Nguyen in an interview with Joseph Cox for the portal. 404 Medium. In fact, they have also assured that they do not plan to share the code of the program they have designed to prevent someone from taking advantage of it to carry out illegal activities.
This is crazy.
Two researchers have added facial recognition to Meta’s glasses to identify random people on the street and expose personal data such as their name, phone number or where they live. A nightmare for privacy. pic.twitter.com/Vi1ajYzCp9
— Carles Planas Bou (@carlesplanasbou) October 2, 2024
His intention was to demonstrate how what has been achieved is not the result of a dystopian future, but is already here and within the “reach” of millions of people because it is a device that is for sale, such as They explain in their official statement.
The Ray-Ban Meta have an LED light that activates when the user wearing them starts recording video or makes a live broadcast on Instagram, with the aim of alerting others that they are in operation. However, this light shines little and is almost imperceptible during the day, so people are not aware that they are being recorded.
Meta is aware of the problem and that is why he asks in his usage policy Ray-Ban Meta owners should be cautious and respect the privacy of other people when they do not want to be recorded, inviting them to make a gesture or voice command to activate the recording and alert others.
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