This harmful program is every stalker's dream.
Two Harvard University students have created a new tool that highlights how easy it is to identify individuals and access their personal information, including their home address, using Ray-Ban's Meta smart glasses.
Anhu Nguyen and Cain Ardeifio are Ivy League engineering students. I posted a scary demonstration video of their program. It was named I-XRAY to X on Monday.
“Some guys might just find out a girl's home address on the train and follow her home,” Nguyen said. told 404 media About the sinister potential of specs.
Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses can record up to 3 minutes of video.
The I-XRAY program works by uploading footage from the glasses to PimEyes. PimEyes is a facial recognition tool that uses AI to match recorded faces with publicly available images on the internet.
I-XRAY then has another AI tool search public databases to retrieve personal information about the individuals in the images, such as names, addresses, phone numbers, and even information about relatives.
This information is sent to the I-XRAY mobile app.
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In a video posted to You can see how they behave.
However, Nguyen and Ardeifio have not made the program public, claiming they were only creating it “for emphasis.” [the] Serious privacy concerns related to Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses.
“The purpose of building this tool was not for exploitation, and we have no intention of releasing it,” the two clarified. additional documents.
To reduce the potential for exposure by malicious actors using the Meta smart glasses, Nguyen and Ardayfio also published step-by-step instructions for removing people from the public databases they used to capture their personal information. I did.
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404 Media reported in part that “Both Meta and PimEyes appear to be downplaying privacy risks.”
Meta claims that “the same risks exist for photographs” as for recordings obtained from smart glasses.
Meanwhile, PimEyes says its technology “does not 'identify' people” but simply links to photos where users can better find identifying information.
The Post has reached out to Mehta for comment.
