Two Harvard students demo using Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, PimEyes, and other tools to instantly identify strangers' names, phone numbers, addresses, and more
The technology, which marries Meta's smart Ray Ban glasses with the facial recognition service Pimeyes and some other tools …
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@alexheath
Alex Heath
on threads
when I was demoing Orion, a Meta exec mentioned that they were already thinking about “name tags” for AR glasses. would be incredibly useful and also huge societal/privacy implications to figure out https://www.theverge.com/...
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@matthewraifman
Matthew Raifman
on threads
This is so messed up. “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... the demo uses current, widely available technology like the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasse…
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@jendiagammon
@jendiagammon
on threads
These things are a nightmare. https://www.404media.co/... 
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@jank0
Janko Roettgers
on threads
The thing about people using Meta's Ray-Bans to remind them who they're talking to: It's scary, but it's also the scenario everyone has been working towards. It's basically the Apple Intelligence ad that's widely circulating right now ("I didn't think you would remember me!"), b…
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@Theeo123@mastodon.social
James House-Lantto
on mastodon
https://www.404media.co/... A pair of students at Harvard, added Facial recognition to Meta's smart glasses, to instantly identify anyone in their field of vision, To prove a point they went a step further, having the glasses pull all publicly available information about a perso…
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@mvsde@mastodon.social
Fynn Becker
on mastodon
So, it took like one weeks to turn Mark Zuckerberg's smart glasses into dystopian surveillance technology 👏 — Obligatory Ian Malcom quote from Jurassic Park: — “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.” …
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@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
Erik Jonker
on mastodon
Good demo of the current risks with regard to AI / social media — https://www.theverge.com/... #ai #privacy #doxxing
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@polotek.bsky.social
Marco Rogers
on bluesky
Who could've foreseen this?! [embedded post]
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@ishigh.lol
Carl Marx
on bluesky
👏wear👏an👏n95/kn95👏mask👏 [embedded post]
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@jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie
James Kelleher
on bluesky
Ok while this is terrible, I'd like you to make it for people whose names I'm supposed to know [embedded post]
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@wolvendamien.bsky.social
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
on bluesky
Facial recognition in smart glasses to dox people? Yeah, a bunch of us warned shit like this was going to happen, and it's going to enable some really bad shit. We need to fundamentally reconsider what constitutes “public” and “private” in our society, and we need to have done …
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@golikehellmachine.com
@golikehellmachine.com
on bluesky
this was always going to happen, and it's the one of the most obvious use cases for these things, which meta knows. [embedded post]
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@vmcntosh.bsky.social
Victoria McIntosh
on bluesky
How many industry experts in ethics, privacy, violence (domestic, stalking and others), activists and supporters of basic human rights warned about this *exact* bloody thing? [embedded post]
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@napsandsarcasm.bsky.social
@napsandsarcasm.bsky.social
on bluesky
I expect that my image is captured multiple times when I'm out. — I don't exoect said images being able to instantly link to any web search for any clown who wants that information.
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@anhphunguyen1
AnhPhu Nguyen
on x
Are we ready for a world where our data is exposed at a glance? @CaineArdayfio and I offer an answer to protect yourself here: [link]
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@jsrailton
John Scott-Railton
on x
If you are wearing smart glasses, I'm crossing the street to avoid you. [image]
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@jsrailton
John Scott-Railton
on x
Augmented reality is cool & interesting. But a mutual surveillance dystopia is the worst. It should scare you that big tech is again trying to get you to carry their cameras.
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@autismcapital
@autismcapital
on x
Hot take: Front facing cameras in glasses are inevitable. The reason people are so freaked out about it is because now the average Joe gets access to tech that the gov has had for a long time. As with any technology this will increase the potential for stalking, social engineer…
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@josephfcox
Joseph Cox
on x
This was Meta's response when I asked for comment on their smart glasses being used with facial recognition tech, ‘it could be done on any camera’. I mean, yeah. But it was done on Ray Bans. And Ray Bans look like normal glasses. That's the point https://www.404media.co/... [imag…
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@iterintellectus
Vittorio
on x
startup idea: a pair of glasses with projecting IR jamming to make you invisible to cameras who's building this?
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@burhanplays
Burhan
on x
Even if our data is publicly searchable, devices like this should be made illegal. Think of how women will be stalked, raped, and murdered when random men can find their address just by looking at their face.
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@anhphunguyen1
AnhPhu Nguyen
on x
@adamcohenhillel @CaineArdayfio It does much more than pimeyes. Name, home address, etc. fully automatic
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@daniellefong
@daniellefong
on x
this would save me at parties ngl
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@iterintellectus
Vittorio
on x
yeah, goodbye privacy, it's been fun until it lasted
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@kentbye
Kent Bye
on x
These two folks built an IXRAY pipeline to do facial recognition via Ray-Ban Meta Smartglasses livestream & they demonstrate the ability to recognize strangers in public and then strike up conversations using info from Internet searches. So begins potential privacy backlashes.
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@adamcohenhillel
Adam C.H.
on x
@AnhPhuNguyen1 @CaineArdayfio Cool hardware form, but software is called PimeYes and it existed for years https://pimeyes.com/en
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@comicsbyvien
VieN
on x
Why is this video edited like “yay we invented a device that would be helpful for stalkers 😍😍”
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r/gadgets
r
on reddit
Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds. Linking Meta smart glasses to a face search engine can ID strangers in a glance.
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r/LinusTechTips
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College students used Meta's smart glasses to dox people in real time
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r/technology
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College students used Meta's smart glasses to dox people in real time | The demo highlights the dark side of AR glasses.
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r/gadgets
r
on reddit
College students used Meta's smart glasses to dox people in real time | The demo highlights the dark side of AR glasses.
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r/technews
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College students used Meta's smart glasses to dox people in real time
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r/ABoringDystopia
r
on reddit
Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers
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r/Futurology
r
on reddit
Prototype glasses with built-in camera that uses server-based facial recognition to create a dossier of everyone you see [via publicly available data]
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r/singularity
r
on reddit
Harvard students Build and show off AR glasses project that uses face detection, internet sleuthing, and AI to give you near instant dossiers (address, family info, name, etc) on people you see. …