Just a heads up, if you buy something through our links, we may get a small share of the sale. It’s one of the ways we keep the lights on here. Click here for more.Two Harvard students developed an alarming example of how smart glasses could use face recognition technology to quickly reveal people’s identities, phone numbers, and addresses. The most frightening thing is that the demo includes current, easily accessible technologies, such as Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and public databases. A project dubbed I-XRAY by two Harvard students, AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio, provides real-world examples of how Meta Ray-Bans can be used with some creative changes can be used to dox people in real-time. With great smart glasses come great privacy concerns A video posted by AnhPhu Nguyen on Twitter/X shows the I-XRAY project in action. The technology broadcasts footage to Instagram using the Meta smart glasses. Are we ready for a world where our data is exposed at a glance? @CaineArdayfio and I offer an answer to protect yourself here:https://t.co/LhxModhDpk pic.twitter.com/Oo35TxBNtD— AnhPhu Nguyen (@AnhPhuNguyen1) September 30, 2024 A computer application then monitors the stream and applies artificial intelligence to recognize faces. These photographs are then entered into public databases to retrieve names, addresses, phone numbers, and other details. This information is then transmitted back into a phone app. In the demo, Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio, the other students working on the project, use the glasses to identify various classmates, their addresses, and the names of relatives in…Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses have a huge privacy issue