Scammers Can Use Meta’s Smart Glasses To Scan Your Face
Did you know scammers can use Meta’s smart glasses to scan your face? It can help them pretend to know you!
A team at Harvard has reportedly created an app that pairs with Meta’s smart glasses and can identify anyone on the street in mere seconds! This is a huge technological advancement and can have many benefits but it can also pose a problem as well. Is technology finally going too far?
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Sure, it can help you remember a stranger’s name at the party and might get you out of an embarrassing situation. However, scammers could use it to pretend they know you and if they use it the way it can be used it can be a privacy or security concern! It’s basically like a stalker’s dream!
According to The New York Post, AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio are engineering students at Harvard and they shared a demonstration of what their program, I-Xray, can do–and it is terrifying. The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses can reportedly record up to 3 minutes of video and the I-Xray program can then upload the footage from the glasses to PimEyes which is a facial recognition tool that uses AI to match a recorded face to any publicly available images on the internet. So, if the general public has access to this we have to assume the federal government does too, right? Strange. Big Brother is watching!
In the test video shared on X (formerly Twitter) the students are seen identifying classmates in real-time and approach strangers to use the app. However, the good news is that the 2 students will not be releasing the program and say they only created it to share their concerns about the product. You have to think if they were able to create it some smart high-tech scammers would be able to replicate what they did or do something similar. Thankfully, they’re also sharing step-by-step instructions on how to remove yourself from the public databases that the engineers used to obtain personal information. You can read more about that from The New York Post.
In a statement, Meta tells The New York Post, “Ray-Ban Meta glasses do not have facial recognition technology. 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. Unlike most other devices, Ray-Ban Meta glasses have an LED light that indicates to others that the user is recording. This LED cannot be disabled by the user, and we introduced tamper detection technology to prevent users from covering up the capture LED.”
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