Meta’s Smart Glasses Could Dox People in Seconds
By Movieguide® Contributor
Two college students recently put Meta’s “smart glasses” to the test, highlighting the potential dangers of the technology.
I-XRAY are smart glasses with built-in facial recognition. The technology can identify a person and potentially find their phone numbers and addresses.
AnhPhu Nguyen, one of the students, explained their experiment in a video posted to X.
“We stream the video from the glasses straight to Instagram and have a computer program monitor the stream,” he began. “We use AI to detect when we’re looking at someone’s face. Then we scour the internet to find more pictures of that person. Finally, we use data sources like online articles and voter registration databases to figure out their name, phone number, home address and relative’s names. And it’s all fed back to an app we wrote on our phone.”
The students were able to identify and gather the personal information of multiple people simply by looking at them.
Movieguide® previously reported on Meta’s glasses:
Meta has updated its Ray-Ban smart glasses — they can now post Instagram stories directly to your account.
The Verge reports that users can simply say, “‘Hey Meta, share my last photo to Instagram’ after taking a photo or tell it to ‘post a photo to Instagram’ before taking a new picture.”
This isn’t the only update Meta has added to the smart glasses.
“You’ll now be able to get your glasses to quickly play your tunes on Amazon Music,” EnGadget wrote. “Just say ‘Hey Meta, play Amazon Music’ to start listening through the smart glasses’ open-ear audio system. And yes, you’ll be able to control the audio with the device’s touch controls or with your voice.”
The Verge reported, “Facial recognition tech has been frighteningly accurate for a while now, and I-XRAY is largely just chaining together a bunch of existing technologies. 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.”
Just like anything with great power, it could be beneficial in the right hands but dangerous in the wrong ones. AI has undergone much scrutiny for this very reason. Even AI creators such as Elon Musk have expressed their concerns.
“Musk has previously warned about the dangers of the ‘unrestricted development’ of AI and the detrimental effects it could have on humanity,” Movieguide® reported.
“One of the biggest risks to the future of civilization is AI. But AI is both positive or negative—it has great promise, great capability but also, with that comes great danger,” Musk explained.
“I think we need to regulate AI safety, frankly,” he said. “Think of any technology which is potentially a risk to people, like if it’s aircraft or cars or medicine, we have regulatory bodies that oversee the public safety of cars and planes and medicine.”
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