AI Glasses To Retrieve Personal Info Instantly

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Mounds of personal information is readily available online and two Harvard University students are exposing the severe privacy threat this poses by integrating AI with Meta’s Ray Ban Smart Glasses.

*Read to find out ways to protect yourself from this technology.

“You get a video feed from the glasses, and we have a bot that takes those video data and tries to find a face in it,” explained Caine Ardayfio, a junior at Harvard who created the technology alongside AnhPhu Nguyen, another Harvard junior.

The software leverages existing search engines and facial recognition technology to identify individuals in real time. Their app, powered by a large language model, compiles this data within mere minutes.

“If it finds a face, then it will upload it to this tool called ‘PimEyes,’ and it will essentially, it’s called ‘reverse image search,’ where you take an image and you find other similar images online. Once you have URLs of those other images, we use an AI basically to try and figure out a person’s name.”

Ardayfio continued, “Once we find their name, we use databases like voter registration databases to find an address, phone number, that type of thing.”

In a video shared on social media, the duo demonstrated the technology by revealing personal information about fellow students and several strangers.

To help those who don’t want their data exposed, the students also created a guide on how to opt out of reverse face search engines.

At present, federal law does not prohibit the use of facial recognition systems, with regulations varying widely across states.

Some states, including Massachusetts where the students who created this technology reside, have enacted restrictions on government use of this technology, with Boston and Cambridge prohibiting it entirely.

“Most people didn’t even know that these tools could exist where you could just find someone’s home address from their name, so people were rightfully scared. That’s why when we started building this, we opted to also make that guide to solve the problem immediately.”

Magicians have even contacted the students about the possibility of using the technology, but they don’t plan on releasing their code as they understand how it could be misused.

Nguyen said, “Basically, why we did this was to raise awareness of how much data we have just publicly available.”

“All of the data that we collect is publicly accessible by anyone. You can instantly delete yourself and make this tool ineffective.”

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As stated, the students also released a Google document which outlines how to remove your information from reverse face search engines and protect your privacy.

The Google document includes links and instructions to assist users in protecting themselves.

*Encounter News does not endorse the links used in the document, however, we are providing a link to the document itself for the sake of our readers to review the information and to use it at their discretion.

Conclusion

Whenever there is a new technology that is produced, there are those who would seek to use it to exploit the innocent and the naive.

Thankfully, this is one case where young men understand the threat and are working to not only keep the technology out of the hands of those who would seek to use it for harm but to use their creation as an opportunity to bring awareness to their fellow citizens on how to protect themselves from being exploited by AI technology.

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