Joseph CoxA pair of students at Harvard have built what big tech companies refused to release publicly due to the overwhelming risks and danger involved: smart glasses with facial recognition technology that automatically looks up someone’s face and identifies them. The students have gone a step further too. Their customized glasses also pull other information about their subject from around the web, including their home address, phone number, and family members.
Source: Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta’s Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers by Joseph Cox
Joseph Cox shares a project developed by AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio called I-XRAY.
Initially started as a side project, I-XRAY quickly highlighted significant privacy concerns. The purpose of building this tool is not for misuse, and we are not releasing it. Our goal is to demonstrate the current capabilities of smart glasses, face search engines, LLMs, and public databases, raising awareness that extracting someone’s home address and other personal details from just their face on the street is possible today.
Source: I-XRAY
The project uses a pair of Meta’s commercially available Ray Ban smart glasses to scan faces and then use Pimeyes to lookup the user.