Harvard students create facial recognition tool for smart glasses, raising privacy concerns.

Harvard students AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio created a tool called I-XRAY that uses Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses to automatically identify strangers and extract sensitive information, like names and addresses, through facial recognition technology. Demonstrating the potential for misuse, they aimed to raise awareness about privacy risks. The project has sparked debate over ethical implications and the threat of doxing, though the students emphasize curiosity as their main motivation.

October 02, 2024
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