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Harvard Students' I-XRAY: AI Facial Recognition in Meta Glasses Raises Privacy, Doxxing Concerns

Oct 13, 2024, 04:41 PM

Two Harvard students have developed an innovative application called I-XRAY, which integrates AI facial recognition technology into Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses. This app can identify individuals and retrieve personal information from the internet, raising significant privacy concerns. The technology matches images from Google search to provide details such as names and addresses in mere seconds. This development, reminiscent of the game Watch_Dogs, underscores the potential privacy dilemmas associated with personalized AI, as it requires access to extensive personal data to function effectively. Critics have likened the technology to 'doxxing machines' and warn of the implications of a supercomputer that reads everything and forgets nothing.