{"id":8332,"date":"2024-10-03T11:39:28","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T11:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/03\/students-adapt-metas-smart-glasses-to-dox-strangers-in-real-time\/"},"modified":"2024-10-03T11:39:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T11:39:28","slug":"students-adapt-metas-smart-glasses-to-dox-strangers-in-real-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/03\/students-adapt-metas-smart-glasses-to-dox-strangers-in-real-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Students adapt Meta\u2019s smart glasses to dox strangers in real time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two students have made a pair of smart glasses with facial recognition technology to discover the private information of strangers.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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“Wait, are you Betsy?” he asks her. Betsy is a complete stranger and he hasn’t heard of her until seconds before.<\/p>\n

“I think I met you through the Cambridge Community Foundation, right?”<\/p>\n

She smiles, stands up to greet him and shakes his hand.<\/p>\n

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AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio made the demonstration to show how easily smart glasses can be used maliciously.<\/p>\n

“Are we ready for a world where our data is exposed at a glance?” Mr Nguyen asked in a post on X.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

They used a pair of Meta’s<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n

Using that first, live picture, the computer looked up more pictures of the person and then scoured voter registration databases and news articles.<\/p>\n

Using those publicly available sources, the two students were able to quickly discover people’s names, phone numbers, home addresses and even relatives’ names.<\/p>\n

In a video shared online, the experiment is repeated over and over, with Mr Nguyen and Mr Ardayfio testing it out on Harvard’s campus to the shock of their fellow students.<\/p>\n

“What about John and Susan?” they asked one woman.<\/p>\n

“They are my parents…” she replied in horror.<\/p>\n

“This is meant to be a demonstration to raise awareness of what’s possible today with consumer tech,” said Mr Nguyen, adding the pair won’t be releasing the code for how they built the programme.<\/p>\n

“It’s too dangerous,” Mr Nguyen told one of his followers.<\/p>\n

Meta told Sky News the Ray Bans do not come equipped with facial recognition technology and will also make a sound and show a light to indicate to others that the glasses are recording.<\/p>\n

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The sound and recording light cannot be disabled by the user, and if the light is completely covered, the user will be asked to remove obstacles before taking a photo or recording a video.<\/p>\n

“From what we can see, these students are simply using publicly-available facial recognition software on a computer that would work with photos taken on any camera, phone or recording device,” said a Meta spokesperson.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n

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