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College students used Meta's smart glasses to dox people in real time (theverge.com)
20 points by rahimnathwani 18 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments





The facial recognition runs in the cloud, via Primeyes https://pimeyes.com/en - not on the glasses themselves. It seems rather click baitey to highlight the Ray Ban smart glasses when pretty much any video camera can be used for this purpose. There are plenty of hidden camera manufacturers that don't even bother to include a privacy light, and actively try to camouflage cameras as everyday objects. Here's one disguised as a screw head: https://www.ebay.com/itm/143837083926

It's not like taking the smart glasses off the market would make this technology any less accessible.


This is great in two ways. First is building public awareness. The second is that it's democratizing this technology. Since bad actors and the government are already using this Tech, the best response is to make sure that everyone has access to it.

Doc from the students explaining their work:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41724310


Also related: "I-XRAY: The AI Glasses That Reveal Anyone's Address Just from Looking at Them" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41713204

Related submission: "Meta glasses extract personal info in real time" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41726198



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