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National News See other National News Articles Title: Harvard students demonstrate how Meta smart glasses can be used to instantly identify people and access their personal information Students from Harvard University have found that Meta's new smart glasses can be used to identify an individual and obtain access to their personal information. Facebook, in partnership with luxury sunglasses maker Ray-Ban, created Ray-Ban Stories. These smart glasses are loaded with a dual integrated five-megapixel camera, a three microphone array and discreet open-ear speakers. Wearers can secretly snap photos and video on the go and have control over some apps hands-free. At the touch of a button on the side of the Meta Ray Ban 2, wearers can film up to three minutes of live video, which can even be streamed to Instagram. Recently, two Harvard students developed a program for Ray-Ban Stories that can be used to immediately identify individuals and obtain access to their personal information, including home addresses. Engineering students AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio posted a chilling demonstration of what their program, dubbed I-Xray, can do. "Some dude could just find some girl's home address on the train and just follow them home," Nguyen said. "Are we ready for a world where our data is exposed at a glance?" "The purpose of building this tool is not for misuse, and we are not releasing it," said Nguyen and Ardayfio in a document outlining the technology. "Our goal is to demonstrate the current capabilities of smart glasses, face search engines, large language models and public databases. [We're] raising awareness that extracting someone's home address and other personal details from just their face on the street is possible today." Security expert: Glasses enabled to film the public is a dangerous development The I-Xray program works by beginning live-streaming on the smart glasses. The live-streamed footage is then uploaded to a program called PimEyes, a facial recognition tool that uses artificial intelligence to match a recorded face to any publicly available images on the internet. I-Xray then prompts another AI tool that scours public databases to retrieve personal details about the individual in the image, including their name, address, phone number and even information about relatives. "It's all fed back to an app we wrote on our phone," said Nguyen in the video posted to X. I-Xray is unique because it operates entirely automatically, quickly allowing the wearer to find information about people they come across. Jake Moore, security advisor at software company ESET, said: "Glasses enabled to film the public is a 'worryingly dangerous development.'" "We are seeing technology advancing into areas that are simply not required," Moore said. "Furthermore, when they are adapted to recognize individuals it becomes a scary tool that could easily be abused." Meanwhile, a Meta spokesperson said: "To be clear, Ray-Ban Meta glasses do not have facial recognition technology." Poster Comment: I wouldn't wear anything with that much electronic activity that close to my brain and my eyes. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 2.
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"You have been recognized." - Johanne Kraus, my former Lead Worker on Illinois State Highways. Kraus was a Sudeten German. When Germany annexed the Sudetenland, he volunteered for the Waffen SS. His father protested to the camp Commander that he was being treated too harshly in boot camp. He was arrested as a dissenter and sent to the camps in Germany. The last I heard he still had not found a trace of him. Many people disappeared in those camps. He was fighting on the Eastern front and was captured by the Russians. He was riding on a prison wagon with a female guard. She fell asleep and dropped her rifle. He jumped off the wagon and retrieved the rifle and awakened her. She gave him a big kiss and told him, "If I had lost my rifle they would have killed me." Kraus was one of the few to be repatriated. Most of them died in the Gulag as late as 1952. ;).
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