Two Harvard students created facial recognition glasses using tools that are readily available and then demonstrated them on strangers in Boston. They created them to prove the privacy risks of smart glasses. Two students have made a pair of smart glasses with facial recognition technology to discover the private information of strangers. In a video demonstration, one of the Harvard students is shown using the technology to quickly discover details about the woman sitting near him at a train station in Boston. “Wait, are you Betsy?” he asks her. Betsy is a complete stranger and he hasn’t heard of her until seconds before. “I think I met you through the Cambridge Community Foundation, right?” She smiles, stands up to greet him and shakes his hand. AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio made the demonstration to show how easily smart glasses can be used maliciously. “Are we ready for a world where our data is exposed at a glance?” Mr Nguyen asked in a post on X. Mr Nguyen, who studies human augmentation, and Mr Ardayfio, who studies physics, created the facial recognition glasses using tools that are readily available on the market. They used a pair of Meta’s smart Ray Bans and streamed its live recordings to a computer, where AI was used to spot when the glasses were looking at a face. Using that first, live picture, the computer looked up more pictures of the person and then scoured voter registration databases and news articles.
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