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College students used Meta’s smart glasses to dox people in real time
Privacy will always be a major concern with smart glasses.
Two Harvard students have created an eerie demo of how smart glasses can use facial recognition tech to instantly dox people’s identities, phone numbers, and addresses. It relies in part on PimEyes, which The New York Times described in 2022 as an “alarmingly accurate” face search engine that “anyone can use.” Concerns around this tech have been heightened since it came out that Clearview AI was using facial recognition to help law enforcement. In particular, they point out that I-XRAY is unique because large language models (LLMs) enable it to work automatically, drawing relationships between names and photos from vast data sources.
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