Smart Glasses: From Cool Tech to Privacy Nightmare?
Smart glasses might be the future of cool gadgets—but what if they also turn you into an unwilling reality star, with your personal data as the main attraction?
Two Harvard students have created "I-XRAY," a demo showing how Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses, paired with AI, can dox anyone in real time. Their experiment connects facial recognition with public databases to reveal a stranger’s name, address, and even family members, all within seconds. The demo is intended to highlight privacy concerns, not misuse, but the implications are clear—this is no longer sci-fi, it's reality.
The glasses use AI to match faces with public images and scrape data from online sources, feeding it all back through a phone app. The potential for abuse is alarming, raising ethical questions about how society will balance innovation with privacy. Should we embrace this future, or are we on the edge of a dangerous, privacy-eroding world?
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